🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

nombrado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nombrado

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Appointed/əˈpɔɪntɪd/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Ella fue nombrada como la nueva directora de la organización."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Designated or assigned to a particular position or role.

    "She was appointed as the new director of the organization."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense of appoint; to have assigned someone to a position or task.

    "He appointed her to lead the project last year."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'appointed' originates from the Middle English 'apointen', which derives from the Old French 'apointer', meaning 'to arrange, to fix'. The root can be traced back to the Latin 'punctum', meaning 'point', indicating a sense of fixing or determining a point in time or space.

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