acetábulo
See also: acetabulo
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧ce‧tá‧bu‧lo
Noun edit
acetábulo m (plural acetábulos)
- (anatomy) acetabulum (bony cup that receives the head of the thigh bone)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin acētābulum, the anatomical meaning being a calque of Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθeˈtabulo/ [a.θeˈt̪a.β̞u.lo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aseˈtabulo/ [a.seˈt̪a.β̞u.lo]
- Rhymes: -abulo
- Syllabification: a‧ce‧tá‧bu‧lo
Noun edit
acetábulo m (plural acetábulos)
Derived terms edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- “acetábulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014