lugarteniente – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of lugarteniente

Noun: lugarteniente
Gender: m Hyphenation: lu‧gar‧te‧nien‧te
Singular mlugarteniente
Singular flugarteniente; lugartenienta
Plural mlugartenientes
Plural flugartenientes; lugartenientas

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locum tenentem (“place haver, one who holds a place”). Cognate with English lieutenant and French lieutenant. Morphologically equivalent to lugar (“place”) + teniente (“haver”). See: Latin Nouns 'locum tenens', English Nouns 'lieutenant', French Nouns 'lieutenant'.

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