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inédito

unpublished

adjective een-EH-dee-toh Rare
Arts & Culture Literature

Origin: From Latin 'ineditus' (not given out, unpublished), from 'in-' + 'editus' (published).

Also means

unprecedented, novel

Usage Note

Inédito primarily means 'unpublished' for texts or music, but in modern Spanish it frequently extends to anything previously unseen or unprecedented (una situación inédita, an unprecedented situation). It is a formal, written-register word. Its clearest opposite is publicado (published). Feminine: inédita.

Examples

"Encontraron un manuscrito inédito del poeta."

Natural Translation

They found an unpublished manuscript by the poet.

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