corregidor

From Spanish corregidor (literally “corrector”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈrɛɡəˌdɔr/, /kɔˌrɛhiˈdɔr/

corregidor (plural corregidors)

1. (historical) The chief magistrate of a Spanish town or one in the Spanish Empire.

• Corregidor Day
• corregimiento

• “corregidor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From corregir +‎ -dor. Cognate with Portuguese corregedor.

corregidor (feminine corregidora, masculine plural corregidores, feminine plural corregidoras)

1. correcting, correctional

   Synonym: correctivo

corregidor m (plural corregidores)

1. magistrate, reeve (judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law)

• “corregidor”, 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