estado

From Spanish estado (“Spanish fathom, state, status”), from Latin stātus (“standing, state, status”). Doublet of state, status, estate, and stade.

estado (plural estados)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 1.67 m.

• stade, Spanish brace, Spanish toise, Spanish fathom, braza, toesa, brace, toise, fathom (Spanish contexts)

• pie (¹⁄₆ estado), codo (¹⁄₄ estado), vara (¹⁄₂ estado), estadal (2 estados), cordel (25 estados), legua (2,500 estados)

Borrowed from Spanish estado.

estado

1. state

From Old Galician-Portuguese estado, from Latin status (“status, condition”).

• IPA^(key): /esˈtado/ [es̺ˈt̪a.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: es‧ta‧do

estado m (plural estados)

1. state
2. status

• golpe de estado

estado (feminine estada, masculine plural estados, feminine plural estadas)

1. past participle of estar

Inherited from Latin status, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

estado m (uncountable)

1. state; condition
2. status (person’s position or standing)

• Fala: estau
• Galician: estado
• Portuguese: estado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

estado

1. past participle of estar

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “estado”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “estado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “estado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: es‧ta‧do
• Homophone: Estado

From Old Galician-Portuguese estado, from Latin status (“status, condition”), from the verb stō (“stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Doublet of status.

estado m (plural estados)

1. (government) state (subdivision of a nation)
2. status, condition, standing

   Synonyms: condição, situação, status

3. (proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of Estado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

estado (invariable)

1. past participle of estar

• “estado”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “estado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “estado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “estado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

Inherited from Latin stātus (“state, status, standing”). As a unit of length, from the distance approximating the height of a grown man. Doublet of estatus. Cognate with English state.

• IPA^(key): /esˈtado/ [esˈt̪a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: es‧ta‧do

estado m (plural estados)

1. country, land (any broad area or territory)

   Synonym: país

2. (proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of Estado (“state, a territory with a formally recognized sovereign government; administration, its government”)
3. state (a province, particularly a fairly autonomous one within a federation)
4. state, status (a condition)

   Synonyms: situación, estatus

5. (historical) estado, Spanish fathom (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 167 cm)

   Synonyms: braza, toesa

• estado de ánimo

• (political division of a federation): provincia, región
• (unit of length): pie (¹⁄₆ estado), codo (¹⁄₄ estado), vara (¹⁄₂ estado), estadal (2 estados), cordel (25 estados), legua (2,500 estados)

• → English: stade, estado

estado (feminine estada, masculine plural estados, feminine plural estadas)

1. past participle of estar

• “estado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish estado, from Latin stātus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔesˈtado/ [ʔɛsˈt̪aː.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: es‧ta‧do

estado (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜆᜇᜓ)

1. state, country (sovereign polity)

   Synonyms: bansa, nasyon

2. condition, situation

   Synonyms: kalagayan, sitwasyon, katayuan, lagay, tayo

3. status, rank

   Synonym: ranggo

4. married state

   Synonyms: buhay-may-asawa, pag-kamay-asawa

5. adult stage

• lumagay sa estado

1. “estado”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024

• “estado”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018