passado

English

Noun

passado (plural passados or passadoes)

  1. Alternative form of passade

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese passado, corresponding to passar (“to pass”) +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.ˈsa.ðu/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.ˈsa.du/
  • Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧do

Noun

passado m (plural passados)

  1. past (period of time that has already happened)
    No passado as pessoas não liam muitos livros.
    In the past people didn’t read many books.
  2. (grammar) past; past tense (verb tense expressing actions that already happened)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:passado.

Synonyms

Adjective

passado m (feminine singular passada, masculine plural passados, feminine plural passadas, comparable)

  1. past (of the past)
    Glórias passadas.
    Past glories.
  2. (with time periods) last; previous (nouns modified by passado in this sense can be noun phrases or adverb phrases)
    Ano passado li três livros.
    I read three books last year.
    No ano passado li três livros.
    I read three books in the previous year.
  3. (of fruit) past its ripeness; beginning to rot
  4. (figuratively) past its prime

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:passado.

Descendants

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pasadu
  • Kabuverdianu: pasádu
  • Macanese: passado
  • Kristang: passadu
  • Principense: pasadu
  • Tetum: pasadu

Verb

passado m (feminine singular passada, masculine plural passados, feminine plural passadas)

  1. masculine singular past participle of passar

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:passar.

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