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- Portuguese · borrowed fromarguido
- English todayarguido
From Portuguese arguido; entered British English in 2007 through extensive news coverage of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
arguido
Today it means: A person kept for questioning who is not a formal suspect and has certain rights that a witness or suspect would not have. Full definition →
Portuguese arguido