adotada

Adotada is the feminine form of the past participle of the verb adotar in Portuguese. Used as an adjective, adotada indicates that something has been adopted and agrees with the gender and number of the noun it modifies. Examples include uma criança adotada and uma política adotada.

The verb adotar comes from Latin adoptare, meaning to choose and take as one’s own. The related noun is adoção, and the masculine past participle is adotado. The feminine form adotada is used when describing feminine nouns.

Common usages include referring to people and animals that have been adopted, and to policies, laws, or ideas that have been officially accepted. In describing a family, however, the common term for the adoptive family is família adotiva; using família adotada is less common and can be ambiguous. In legal or formal contexts, adotada can describe a decision, position, or measure that has been officially adopted.

In Portuguese, adotada functions as a regular feminine, singular past participle used as an adjective, and it agrees with the noun it modifies. The form is standard in both Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, and it is frequently found in everyday speech as well as in formal writing.