afeminado

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.fe.miˈna.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.fe.miˈna.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.fe.miˈna.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.fɨ.miˈna.du/ [ɐ.fɨ.miˈna.ðu]

• Hyphenation: a‧fe‧mi‧na‧do

Adjective

afeminado (feminine afeminada, masculine plural afeminados, feminine plural afeminadas)

1. (often derogatory, of a man or boy) effeminate (of a man, behaving like a woman)

Participle

afeminado (feminine afeminada, masculine plural afeminados, feminine plural afeminadas)

1. past participle of afeminar

Spanish

Etymology

From afeminar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /afemiˈnado/ [a.fe.miˈna.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧fe‧mi‧na‧do

Adjective

afeminado (feminine afeminada, masculine plural afeminados, feminine plural afeminadas)

1. effeminate

   Synonyms: amanerado, amujerado

Derived terms

• afeminadamente

Participle

afeminado (feminine afeminada, masculine plural afeminados, feminine plural afeminadas)

1. past participle of afeminar

Further reading

• “afeminado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10