albacea

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic صَحْب الوَصِيَّة (ṣáḥb alwaṣíyya, literally “companion of the will”); see Arabic صَحْب (ṣaḥb), وَصِيَّة (waṣiyya).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /albaˈθea/ [al.β̞aˈθe.a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /albaˈsea/ [al.β̞aˈse.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: al‧ba‧ce‧a

albacea m or f by sense (plural albaceas)

1. (law) testamentary executor, administrator

• “albacea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28