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affectionado

affectionado is the misspelling of aficionado.

Meaning of aficionado

Noun

aficionado (plural aficionados or aficionadoes or (rare, hypercorrect) aficionadi)

  1. (obsolete) An amateur bullfighter.
  2. A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee.
    • To the "closet" taxonomist and aficionado of nomenclatural exercises, such emphasis may seem an intrusion.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix

Origin of affectionado

By confusion with affection.

Questions about affectionado

What is affectionado the misspelling of?
Affectionado is the misspelling of aficionado.

Words near affectionado in the dictionary

  1. affectible
  2. affecting
  3. affectingly
  4. affectingness
  5. affection
  6. affectionado
  7. affectional
  8. affectional preference
  9. affectional preferences
  10. affectionally
  11. affectionate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: affectionado (page history and authors); aficionado (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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