preboste
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Catalan prebost, from Latin praepositus.
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: pre‧bos‧te
=== Noun ===
preboste m (plural prebostes)
(military) provost (military prison keeper)
(religion) provost (highest position in a monastery below an abbot)
=== Further reading ===
“preboste”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“preboste”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Catalan prebost, from Latin praepositus.
=== Noun ===
preboste m (plural prebostes)
provost
=== Further reading ===
“preboste”, 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