corregidor

English

Etymology

Spanish corregidor, literally "corrector".

Noun

corregidor (plural corregidors)

  1. The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corregidor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Spanish

Etymology

From corregir +‎ -dor

Adjective

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

  1. correcting, correctional

Synonyms

Noun

corregidor m (plural corregidores)

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