preboste

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan prebost, from Latin praepositus.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾeˈbɔs.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pɾeˈbɔʃ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾeˈbɔs.te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾɨˈbɔʃ.tɨ/ [pɾɨˈβɔʃ.tɨ]

Hyphenation: pre‧bos‧te

Noun

preboste m (plural prebostes)

(military) provost (military prison keeper)
(religion) provost (highest position in a monastery below an abbot)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan prebost, from Latin praepositus.

Noun

preboste m (plural prebostes)

provost

Further reading

“preboste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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