encuentro
Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
encuentro m (plural encuentros)
- encounter, meeting
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r:
- Corrio eſau aencuẽtro de ſo ermano. E abraçol ⁊ echo ſobre ſo cuello el braço. E ſaludolo. ⁊ omillos eſau. E toda ſu cõpãna de iacob.
- Esau ran to meet his brother, and he embraced him and put his arm over his neck. And he greeted him and bowed before Esau, and so too all of Jacob's company.
Descendants edit
- Spanish: encuentro
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /enˈkwentɾo/ [ẽŋˈkwẽn̪.t̪ɾo]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -entɾo
- Syllabification: en‧cuen‧tro
Etymology 1 edit
Deverbal from encontrar. From Old Spanish encuentro
Noun edit
encuentro m (plural encuentros)
- encounter, meeting
- dispute, row
- (sports) match, game
- Synonym: partido
- (automotive) crash, collision
- (military) skirmish, clash
- Synonym: escaramuza
- (anatomy) underarm, armpit
Derived terms edit
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See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
encuentro
Further reading edit
- “encuentro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014