The story
- Spanish · derived fromadelantar“to advance, to promote”
- Spanish · borrowed fromadelantado
- English todayadelantado
Borrowed from Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
adelantado
Today it means: A title bestowed by the king on certain nobles in the 15th-17th centuries, who granted them governorship of a province or charged them with conquering a foreign territory Full definition →
Spanish adelantado