protectorado

Portuguese

Noun

protectorado m (plural protectorados)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of protetorado; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Further reading

• “protectorado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾoteɡtoˈɾado/ [pɾo.t̪eɣ̞.t̪oˈɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: pro‧tec‧to‧ra‧do

Noun

protectorado m (plural protectorados)

1. protectorate
   • 2015 July 14, “¿Quién es el jeque que ha comprado el 10% de El Corte Inglés?”, in El País‎^[1], Madrid: Ediciones El País, S.L., →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 September 2017:

     Pero sobre todo grandes inversiones en el Reino Unido, que gobernó Qatar como un protectorado hasta 1971.

     But above all large investments in the United Kingdom, which governed Qatar as a protectorate until 1971.

Further reading

• “protectorado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026