durmiente
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dormir (“to sleep”) + -iente. The sense “railway sleeper” is a semantic loan from English sleeper.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
durmiente m or f (masculine and feminine plural durmientes)
Derived terms[edit]
- célula durmiente (“sleeper cell”)
Noun[edit]
durmiente m or f by sense (plural durmientes)
- sleeper (person or creature who is sleeping)
- (rail transport, Latin America) railway sleeper, tie
- Synonym: traviesa
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “durmiente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish terms suffixed with -iente
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- es:Sleep