cenote

See also: cénote

WOTD – 13 October 2015

English

Etymology

From Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya tsʼonot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈnoʊteɪ/
• IPA^(key): /səˈnoʊtiː/

Noun

cenote (plural cenotes)

1. A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.

Translations

deep natural well or sinkhole

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: zenote
• Danish: ferskvandshul, cenote
• Dutch: cenote m
• Finnish: sortumakaivo
• French: cénote (fr) m
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: cenote m
• Japanese: セノーテ (senōte)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: cenote
• Portuguese: cenote m
• Russian: сено́т m (senót)
• Spanish: cenote (es) m
• Swedish: cenote c

Anagrams

• octene

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya tsʼonot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌseːˈnoː.tə/
• Hyphenation: cenote
• Rhymes: -oːtə

Noun

cenote m (plural cenotes)

1. cenote

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish cenote, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Yucatec Maya tsʼonot.

Noun

cenote m (uncountable)

1. cenote

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Spanish

Etymology

From Yucatec Maya tsʼonot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈnote/ [θeˈno.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈnote/ [seˈno.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote

Noun

cenote m (plural cenotes)

1. cenote

Descendants

• Dutch: cenote
• English: cenote
• French: cénote
• Italian: cenote

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Etymology

From Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya tsʼonot.

Noun

cenote c

1. cenote

Declension

Declension of cenote
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cenote	cenoten	cenoter	cenoterna
Genitive	cenotes	cenotens	cenoters	cenoternas