solicitado

Solicitado is the past participle of the verb solicitar in Spanish and Portuguese, used as an adjective meaning “requested” or “solicited.” It is common in formal or official language to indicate that something has been asked for by a person or process. In some contexts, solicitado can also appear as a noun referring to the person who has been asked to appear or respond, though this usage is more regionally limited and often clearer with other terms.

Etymology traces solicitado to Latin root sollicitare, through the Romance verbs solicitar and their participles. The sense of the word developed from the general idea of urging, soliciting, or requesting, later settling into the modern meaning of “that has been requested.”

In Spanish, solicitado agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies: documentos solicitados, información solicitada, persona solicitada, and so on. It is typical in administrative, legal, and journalistic writing, where a request has been made for items or responses. The form el solicitado can occasionally appear as a noun, though many contexts prefer solicitar or solicitante to express the subject doing the requesting or the party who has been asked to provide information.

In Portuguese, the usage mirrors the Spanish: dados solicitados, informações solicitadas, o solicitado. The term is frequent in bureaucratic or legal texts; solicitante denotes the requester, while solicitado emphasizes the objects or responses that have been requested.

See also: solicitar, solicitação, solicitante, solicitude.