assassinato

== Italian == === Participle === assassinato (feminine assassinata, masculine plural assassinati, feminine plural assassinate) past participle of assassinare == Portuguese == === Etymology === From assassino (“assassin”) +‎ -ato, from Italian assassino, from Arabic حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn, “hashish users”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: as‧sas‧si‧na‧to === Noun === assassinato m (plural assassinatos) murder (unlawful premeditated killing of one person by another) Synonyms: assassínio, homicídio qualificado assassination (murder of an important figure) Synonym: magnicídio ==== Usage notes ==== Not a legal term. Used in day-to-day contexts to refer to what is defined by law as homicídio qualificado (literally, “qualified homicide”). ==== Hypernyms ==== homicídio ==== Related terms ==== assassino assassinado assassinar === Further reading === “assassinato”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “assassinato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026