mascarada

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [məs.kəˈɾa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [mas.kaˈɾa.ða]
• Rhymes: -ada

Noun

mascarada f (plural mascarades)

1. masquerade

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “mascarada”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “mascarada” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mascarada”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “mascarada”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mas.kaˈɾa.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mas.kaˈɾa.dɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /maʃ.kaˈɾa.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mas.kaˈɾa.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐʃ.kɐˈɾa.dɐ/ [mɐʃ.kɐˈɾa.ðɐ]

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: mas‧ca‧ra‧da

Adjective

mascarada

1. feminine singular of mascarado

Participle

mascarada f sg

1. feminine singular of mascarado

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Late Latin mascara

Latin *mascra

Proto-Indo-European *mesgʷ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *mosgo-der.

Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ

Proto-West Germanic *maskābor.

Latin masca

Italian mascherabor.

Spanish mascarada

Borrowed from Italian maschera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maskaˈɾada/ [mas.kaˈɾa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: mas‧ca‧ra‧da

Noun

mascarada f (plural mascaradas)

1. masquerade

Further reading

• “mascarada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025