pretenso
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin praetēnsus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾeˈtẽ.su/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾeˈtẽ.so/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾɨˈtẽ.su/
- Hyphenation: pre‧ten‧so
Adjective
pretenso (feminine pretensa, masculine plural pretensos, feminine plural pretensas)
- supposed; ostensible (presumed to be)
- Synonym: aparente
Related terms
Further reading
- “pretenso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “pretenso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾeˈtenso/ [pɾeˈt̪ẽn.so]
- Rhymes: -enso
- Syllabification: pre‧ten‧so
Noun
pretenso m (plural pretensos)
- (obsolete) pretense
- Synonym: pretensión
Adjective
pretenso (feminine pretensa, masculine plural pretensos, feminine plural pretensas)
Verb
pretenso
- first-person singular present indicative of pretensar
Further reading
- “pretenso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025