recatado

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kaˈta.du/ [he.kaˈta.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kaˈta.du/ [he.kaˈta.du]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kaˈta.du/ [χe.kaˈta.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.kaˈta.do/ [he.kaˈta.do]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.kɐˈta.du/ [ʁɨ.kɐˈta.ðu]

• Hyphenation: re‧ca‧ta‧do

Adjective

recatado (feminine recatada, masculine plural recatados, feminine plural recatadas)

1. reserved; bashful
2. modest; simple
3. circumspect; prudent

Spanish

Etymology

From recatar (“to hide”) +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rekaˈtado/ [re.kaˈt̪a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: re‧ca‧ta‧do

Adjective

recatado (feminine recatada, masculine plural recatados, feminine plural recatadas)

1. demure, coy, bashful (person)

   Synonyms: pudoroso, modesto

2. modest; prudent (clothing or style)

   Synonym: prudente

   ropa recatada ― modest clothes

   • 2015, Luis Pancorbo, Año Nuevo en Sudán:

     Voy en una fila de tres butacas y en mi lado si sienta una monja, aunque su hábito sea más bien un vestido recatado.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• recatadamente

 

Participle

recatado (feminine recatada, masculine plural recatados, feminine plural recatadas)

1. past participle of recatar

Further reading

• “recatado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28