incorporado

Incorporado is the participle form of the verb incorporar in Spanish and Portuguese, used as an adjective and, less frequently, as a noun. It conveys the idea that something has been formed into a larger whole, added to a system, or brought under a common authority. The term appears in legal, administrative, military, and everyday language, with meanings that overlap across the two Romance languages.

Origin: from Latin incorporatus, the past participle of incorporar, itself from in- “into” and corpus “body.” The sense centers on making something part of a body or system.

In Spanish, incorporado commonly describes entities or persons that have been integrated into a larger organization or legal entity, or that have achieved a formal status. Examples: una empresa incorporada (a corporation); un departamento incorporado al consorcio (a department incorporated into the consortium); los trabajadores incorporados (the incorporated workers) in a military context. The feminine form is incorporada and the plural incorporados/incorporadas.

In Portuguese, the term carries similar senses of integration and inclusion. It is used for someone who has joined a service or organization, or to indicate that a company has been formed or merged as a corporate entity. In military contexts, o incorporado refers to a person drafted into active service. The related noun incorporação denotes the act of incorporating or merging entities, or the process of bringing someone into a group.