atrás

• atrais

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese atras (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *ad trans, from Latin trāns (“beyond”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈtɾas/

atrás

1. behind, in back of
   • 1365, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Dominguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 495:

     outra leira de terreo que jaz atras o çelleiro do Penedo con hun presegeiro que y esta en ella.

     another plot of land which lies behind the barn of Penedo, with a peach tree which is there in it

2. rearward, backwards, towards the back
3. back in time; back then; ago

   Synonyms: entón, daquela

   Alá atrás eramos ben amigos. ― Back then we were good friends.

   • 1266, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 323:

     todas as outras mandas e todos os outros testamentos que eu fige atras aqui non vallan

     every other charter and every other testament I've done before is void

• (antonym(s) of “behind”): adiante

• atrás de
• cara atrás

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “atras”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “atras”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “atrás”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “atrás”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “atrás”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• atras

Inherited from Old Spanish atras (“behind”) from Vulgar Latin *ad trans, from Latin trāns (“beyond”).

• Audio (Spain):

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atrás (Hebrew spelling אטראס)^[1]

1. behind (back)
   • 2019, Aki Yerushalayim:

     Era imposible de tornar atrás a los tiempos onde se eskrivia ladino kon letras ebreas.

     It was impossible to go back to when we wrote Ladino with Hebrew letters.

2. earlier; back in time (ago)

   Synonym: aze

   dos anyos atrás ― two years ago

• atraz (pre-standardization spelling)
• atras, attras, attrás, obsolete
• atráis (eye dialect, Brazil)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese atras (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *ad trans, from Latin trāns (“beyond”).

• Hyphenation: a‧trás

• Audio (Portugal, Porto):

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atrás

1. behind (at the back)

   Synonyms: trás, detrás

   Antonyms: adiante, à frente

   O supermercado fica atrás da padaria.

   The supermarket is behind the bakery.

2. after (looking for)

   A polícia está atrás dele.

   The police are after him.

3. ago (in the past)

   Synonyms: há, faz

   dois meses atrás ― two months ago

• ir atrás

• atras (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish atras (“behind”) from Vulgar Latin *ad trans, from Latin trāns (“beyond”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈtɾas/ [aˈt̪ɾas]

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: a‧trás

atrás

1. behind
2. back in time, ago

   Synonym: hace

   miles de años atrás ― thousands of years ago

• → Tagalog: atras

atrás

1. get back, back off, back away

• “atrás”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024