informado

Informado is the past participle of the verbs informar in Spanish and Portuguese and is used as an adjective meaning “informed” or “provided with information.” It agrees in gender and number: informado (masc singular), informada (fem singular), informados e informadas (plural). The term appears in many common expressions, such as estar informado (to be informed) and consentimiento informado (informed consent).

In both languages, the underlying verb informar means to supply information or to notify. The concept of being well informed is expressed with phrases like bien informado in Spanish or bem informado in Portuguese. The related nouns include información (information in Spanish) and informação (information in Portuguese), while inflectional forms such as informado, informada, informados, and informadas are used to describe people, documents, or situations that have received information.

Legal and medical contexts frequently use the phrase consentimiento informado to denote consent given with adequate information about risks, benefits, and alternatives. In journalism, politics, and everyday discourse, “informado” can describe an audience, a source, or a person who has access to accurate, up-to-date facts, as opposed to someone mal informado (misinformed) or poco informado (not well informed).

Overall, informado functions as a versatile participial adjective tied to the act of informing, with its precise form adjusted for gender and number in Spanish and Portuguese. See also: información, informar, consentimiento informado, informativo, informação.