obelisco
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
obelisco (plural obeliscos)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin obeliscus (“obelisk”), from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos), diminutive of ὀβελός (obelós, “needle”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
obelisco m (plural obelischi)
Latin edit
Noun edit
obeliscō
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: o‧be‧lis‧co
Noun edit
obelisco m (plural obeliscos)
- obelisk (a tall stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin obeliscus, from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos).
Noun edit
obelisco m (plural obeliscos)
Further reading edit
- “obelisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014