corregidor
English
Etymology
Spanish corregidor, literally "corrector".
Noun
corregidor (plural corregidors)
- The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corregidor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Spanish
Etymology
Adjective
corregidor (feminine corregidora, masculine plural corregidores, feminine plural corregidoras)
Synonyms
Noun
corregidor m (plural corregidores)
- magistrate, reeve (judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law)