llegado

Llegado is the masculine singular past participle of the Spanish verb llegar, indicating that someone or something has arrived. It can function as an adjective, describing a person or thing that has reached a destination, and it also appears in perfect tense constructions with haber (ha llegado, había llegado). The feminine form is llegada, and the plural forms are llegados and llegadas. In usage, it may modify a noun directly or appear in reduced relative clauses, as in el viajero llegado ayer.

Common usages include phrases that denote arrival, such as un viajero llegado ayer, to describe a traveler who arrived yesterday. In everyday speech, the idiomatic expression recién llegado is preferred to convey that someone has just arrived. As a standalone noun, llegados is uncommon and tends to appear only in formal or historical contexts to refer to “the arrived ones,” whereas in modern prose it is rarely used as a noun.

Etymology and relation to other words: lleg ado comes from the verb llegar. It is distinct from legado, a separate word meaning inheritance or legacy, which has a different etymology and semantic field. The two terms are easily confounded in writing due to their similar appearance but convey different concepts.

See also: llegar, recién llegado, legar, legado.