pasante
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See also: paŝante
Adverb
pasante
- present adverbial active participle of pasi
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pasante m or f (plural pasantes)
- intern, trainee
- Synonym: practicante
- el pasante del médico
- medical intern
- assistant; clerk
- 1634, Tirso de Molina, La fingida Arcadia:
- Traza es toda del doctor
y este Anfriso es su pasante.
¿Que sospecha hay que te espante
si así entretiene desvelos
de Lucrecia?- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1883, Benito Pérez Galdós, El doctor Centeno:
- Los condenados a ayuno se quedaban en la clase. Se les obligaba a estudiar en aquella triste hora, vigilados por el pasante, a quien una mujer andrajosa llevaba la comida en dos cazuelillos.
- The fastin prisoners stayed in the class. They were made to study at that ungodly time, watched over by the officer, who was brought food in two small dishes by a ragged woman.
- 2015, Thierry Saignes, Borrachera y Memoria:
- El pasante de la fiesta lleva consigo una botella pequeña con alcohol puro de caña (97 por ciento), que ofrece de tanto en tanto (para libar) a los otros participantes.
- The attendant of the party carries a small bottle of pure sugarcane alcohol, which he intermittently offers a swig of to the other partygoers.
- (law) articled clerk
Related terms
Adjective
pasante m or f (masculine and feminine plural pasantes)
Further reading
- “pasante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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