auto

=

car

noun

auto
masculine noun
1. car (coche)
  • autos de choque -> Dodgems®, bumper cars
2. (law)
  • auto (judicial) -> judicial decree
  • auto de procesamiento -> indictment
  • autos -> case documents
  • constar en autos -> to be recorded in the case documents
  • la noche de autos -> the night of the crime
3. (history)
  • auto de fe -> auto-da-fé (public punishment of heretics by the Inquisition)
4. (mystery) play (literature)
  • auto de Navidad -> Nativity play

auto [ah’-oo-to]
noun
1. A judicial decree or sentence. (m)
2. A writ, warrant. (m)
3. An edict, ordinance. (m)
  • Auto de Fe -> the sentence given by the Inquisition
4. Act, action. (Obsolete) (m)
  • Auto definitivo -> definitive act, which has the force of a sentence
  • Auto sacramental -> an allegorical or dramatical piece of poetry on some religious subject, repreented as a play
  • Autos -> the pleadings and proceedings in a lawsuit
  • Estar en autor or en los autos -> to know a thing profoundly
  • Auto acordado -> a sentence or decision of a supreme court, to be observed as a precedent
noun
1. Auto, automobile, car. (m)

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