inesperado

Galician

Adjective

inesperado (feminine inesperada, masculine plural inesperados, feminine plural inesperadas)

1. unexpected

Derived terms

• inesperadamente

Further reading

• “inesperado”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-lbor.

Portuguese in-

Portuguese esperado

Portuguese inesperado

From in- + esperado.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.nes.peˈɾa.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.nes.peˈɾa.du/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /i.neʃ.peˈɾa.du/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.nɨʃ.pɨˈɾa.du/ [i.nɨʃ.pɨˈɾa.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.nɨʃ.pɨˈɾa.du/ [i.nɨʃ.pɨˈɾa.ðu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.nɨʃ.pɨˈɾa.du/

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: i‧nes‧pe‧ra‧do

Adjective

inesperado (feminine inesperada, masculine plural inesperados, feminine plural inesperadas)

1. unexpected (not expected, anticipated or foreseen)

Derived terms

• inesperadamente

Further reading

• “inesperado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “inesperado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “inesperado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “inesperado”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “inesperado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “inesperado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-lbor.

Spanish in-

Spanish esperado

Spanish inesperado

From in- + esperado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inespeˈɾado/ [i.nes.peˈɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: i‧nes‧pe‧ra‧do

Adjective

inesperado (feminine inesperada, masculine plural inesperados, feminine plural inesperadas)

1. unexpected

   Synonym: imprevisto

Derived terms

• inesperadamente

Further reading

• “inesperado”, 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