entenado

== Spanish == === Alternative forms === antenado (obsolete) entenao (dialectal) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Spanish antenado, entenado, borrowed from Late Latin antenātus (“stepson”), from Latin ante nātus (“before birth”); compare Galician enteado, Mirandese antenado, and Portuguese enteado. Doublet of alnado. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /enteˈnado/ [ẽn̪.t̪eˈna.ð̞o] Rhymes: -ado Syllabification: en‧te‧na‧do === Noun === entenado m (plural entenados, feminine entenada, feminine plural entenadas) stepchild, stepson Synonyms: alnado (archaic), hijastro (Nicaragua) an illegitimate stepson; a girlfriend’s child sired by a previous boyfriend === Further reading === “entenado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “entenado”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA “entenado”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019