comprador

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese comprador (“buyer”), from comprar (“to buy”) + -dor (“(agent)”), from Latin comparō (“I buy”).

In Far East, originally applied to native servants in European households, later to native managers in European businesses.

Noun

comprador (plural compradors)

1. An intermediary.
2. A native of a colonised country who acts as the agent of the coloniser.
3. (nautical) A ship's chandler in the Far East.

Derived terms

• comprador bourgeoisie

Translations

intermediary — see intermediary

native of a colonised country who acts as the agent of the coloniser

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 買辦／买办 (zh) (mǎibàn)

• Finnish: kollaboraattori (fi)

Catalan

Etymology

comprar +‎ -dor, or from Late Latin compārator, compāratōrem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.pɾəˈdo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.pɾəˈdo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.pɾaˈdoɾ/

Noun

comprador m (plural compradors, feminine compradora)

1. buyer

Further reading

• “comprador” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “comprador”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “comprador” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “comprador” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

From comprar +‎ -dor, or from Late Latin compārātōrem, from Latin compārō.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.pɾaˈdoʁ/ [kõ.pɾaˈdoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.pɾaˈdoʁ/ [kõ.pɾaˈdoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kõ.pɾaˈdoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kõ.pɾaˈdoʁ/ [kõ.pɾaˈdoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.pɾaˈdoɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõ.pɾɐˈdoɾ/ [kõ.pɾɐˈðoɾ]

Noun

comprador m (plural compradores, feminine compradora, feminine plural compradoras)

1. buyer (person who makes purchases)
2. customer

   Synonyms: cliente, freguês

Related terms

• comprar, compra, comprável

Descendants

• → English: comprador

Spanish

Etymology

comprar +‎ -dor, or from Late Latin compārator, compāratōrem, from Latin compārō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kompɾaˈdoɾ/ [kõm.pɾaˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: com‧pra‧dor

Adjective

comprador (feminine compradora, masculine plural compradores, feminine plural compradoras)

1. buying

Noun

comprador m (plural compradores, feminine compradora, feminine plural compradoras)

1. buyer

Related terms

• comprar

Further reading

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