orfanato

Galician

Noun

orfanato m (plural orfanatos)

1. orphanage (a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans)

Related terms

• orfo

Further reading

• “orfanato” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Etymology

From órfão (“orphan”) +‎ -ato.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁ.faˈna.tu/ [oh.faˈna.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁ.faˈna.tu/ [oh.faˈna.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /oɾ.faˈna.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /oʁ.faˈna.tu/ [oχ.faˈna.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oɻ.faˈna.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾ.fɐˈna.tu/

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: or‧fa‧na‧to

Noun

orfanato m (plural orfanatos)

1. orphanage (a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans)

   Cresci em um orfanato.

   I grew up in an orphanage.

Further reading

• “orfanato” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From huérfano (“orphan”) +‎ -ato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾfaˈnato/ [oɾ.faˈna.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: or‧fa‧na‧to

Noun

orfanato m (plural orfanatos)

1. orphanage (a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans)

   Synonym: orfelinato

Further reading

• “orfanato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014