inhabilitado
/inabilitado/from spelling rules
The English phrase disbarred is translated into Spanish as inhabilitado.
In a legal context, to specify that someone is disbarred from practicing law, one often adds the phrase inhabilitado para ejercer la abogacía.
How does it change in a sentence?
The form inhabilitado must agree in gender with the person being referred to. The feminine form is inhabilitada, the masculine plural is inhabilitados and the feminine plural is inhabilitadas.
How do you pronounce it?
/inabilitado/
Did you know?
- Unlike the English 'disbarred', which specifically targets lawyers, inhabilitado can be applied to doctors, engineers and other licensed professionals.
- The root of inhabilitado is the word hábil, which means 'able' or 'skillful'. To be inhabilitado is literally to be rendered 'unskillful' or 'incapable' for a specific task.
- While inhabilitado refers to the loss of a professional license, it can also describe a person who is legally barred from voting or holding public office.
Examples in context
- Juan fue expulsado del colegio de abogados debido a su conducta poco ética.Juan was disbarred due to his unethical behavior.
- Ricardo ha sido inhabilitado como abogado por un período de cinco años.Ricardo has been disbarred as a lawyer for a period of five years.
- El abogado está inhabilitado para ejercer.The lawyer is disbarred from practicing.
- Fue inhabilitado por un delito grave.He was disbarred due to a serious crime.
- Ese profesional ya está inhabilitado permanentemente.That professional is already permanently disbarred.
Example conversation
Sofía and Daniel are discussing a news story about a lawyer.
- Sofía¿Viste que el abogado de la ciudad fue inhabilitado?Did you see that the city lawyer was disbarred?
- DanielSí, escuché que cometió un fraude grave.Yes, I heard he committed a serious fraud.
- SofíaEs terrible que alguien así haya trabajado aquí.It's terrible that someone like that worked here.
- DanielAl menos ya no puede representar a nadie.At least he can no longer represent anyone.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
