adelantado
noun
ade·lan·ta·do
ˌa-də-ˌlän-ˈtä-(ˌ)dō
plural -s
: a civil and military governor of a province in Spain or her colonies
Word History
Etymology
Spanish, from past participle of adelantar to put ahead, advance, from adelante ahead, from a- (from Latin ad-) + delante before, in front of, alteration of obsolete denante, from de of, from (from Latin) + enante before, in front of, from Late Latin in ante, from Latin in + ante before
First Known Use
1588, in the meaning defined above