selecto
Latin
Participle
sēlēctō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēlēctus
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Adjective
selecto (feminine selecta, masculine plural selectos, feminine plural selectas)
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of seleto; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Etymology 2
Verb
selecto
- first-person singular present indicative of selectar
Further reading
- “selecto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Etymology tree
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seˈleɡto/ [seˈleɣ̞.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -eɡto
- Syllabification: se‧lec‧to
Adjective
selecto (feminine selecta, masculine plural selectos, feminine plural selectas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “selecto”, 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
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- Portuguese forms superseded in 1943
- European Portuguese forms superseded by AO1990
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- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leǵ-
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eɡto
- Rhymes:Spanish/eɡto/3 syllables
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