confinamiento

Spanish

Etymology

From confinar +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konfinaˈmjento/ [kõɱ.fi.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: con‧fi‧na‧mien‧to

Noun

confinamiento m (plural confinamientos)

1. lockdown (the confinement of people in their own homes)
2. confinement, detention (the act of confining or the state of being confined)

Further reading

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