estado
Meaning
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- (masculine) state (subdivision of a nation)
- (masculine,uncountable) state, government
- (masculine) status, condition, standing
Frequency
Hyphenated as
es‧ta‧do
Pronounced as (IPA)
/isˈta.du/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese estado, from Latin status (“status, condition”), from the verb stō (“stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Doublet of status.
New
estar
- (intransitive) to be (indicates location in space)
- (copulative) to be (denotes a transient quality; a quality expected to change)
- (auxiliary) to be; forms the progressive aspect
- (intransitive) to cost (to be worth a certain amount of money), especially of something whose price changes often
- (copulative) to look, to appear (to give an appearance of being)
- to stand
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