cementerio
Chavacano edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish cementerio.
Noun edit
cementerio
- cemetery
- Synonym: camposanto
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion, “sleeping chamber”). Probably influenced by Spanish cemento, whence the intrusive n.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θemenˈteɾjo/ [θe.mẽn̪ˈt̪e.ɾjo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /semenˈteɾjo/ [se.mẽn̪ˈt̪e.ɾjo]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾjo
- Syllabification: ce‧men‧te‧rio
Noun edit
cementerio m (plural cementerios)
- cemetery
- Synonyms: (Andalusia, Latin America) panteón, camposanto
- junkyard, scrapyard
Descendants edit
- > Chavacano: cementerio (inherited)
- → Bikol Central: sementeryo
- → Cebuano: sementeryo
- → Chamorro: sementeyo
- → Ilocano: sementerio
- → Tagalog: sementeryo
Further reading edit
- “cementerio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014