esqueleto
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, to dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skele- (“to parch, to wither”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -etu
- Hyphenation: es‧que‧le‧to
Noun[edit]
esqueleto m (plural esqueletos)
- (anatomy) skeleton (bones of an organism)
- (fiction) skeleton (undead)
- (figuratively, derogatory) a very thin person
- Synonyms: cadáver, seco, anoréxico
- Antonyms: gordo, baleia, rolha de poço, hipopótamo, obeso
- frame; framework
Hyponyms[edit]
- (bones of an organism): endoesqueleto, exoesqueleto
Meronyms[edit]
- (bones of an organism): osso
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /eskeˈleto/ [es.keˈle.t̪o]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eto
- Syllabification: es‧que‧le‧to
Noun[edit]
esqueleto m (plural esqueletos)
- (anatomy) skeleton
- Synonym: osamenta
- (structure) frame (structural elements of a constructed object)
- Synonym: armazón
Meronyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “esqueleto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/etu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/etu/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Anatomy
- pt:Fiction
- Portuguese derogatory terms
- pt:Skeleton
- Spanish terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/eto
- Rhymes:Spanish/eto/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Anatomy
- es:Skeleton