presidio
Spanish, noun
presidio is spelled P-R-E-S-I-D-I-O (8 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 24,401st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Presidio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “prison” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, presidió is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of presidir”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Establecimiento destinado al alojamiento de los penados a privación de libertad”.
What does presidio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprison
- 2
masculineimprisonment
- 3
masculinegarrison
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of presidir
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Establecimiento destinado al alojamiento de los penados a privación de libertad. 2. Pena de privación de libertad que se impone a los condenados por algún delito. 3. Conjunto de reclusos alojado en un presidio₁. 4. Auxilio, ayuda, socorro o amparo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of presidio
- presidios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to presidio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is presidio in Spanish?
presidio appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).