centinela
Spanish
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Borrowed from Italian sentinella.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /θentiˈnela/ [θẽn̪.t̪iˈne.la] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /sentiˈnela/ [sẽn̪.t̪iˈne.la] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ela
- Syllabification: cen‧ti‧ne‧la
Noun
[edit]centinela m (plural centinelas)
Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: sentinela
Further reading
[edit]- “centinela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Categories:
- Spanish terms derived from Italian
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sent- (perceive)
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms borrowed from Italian
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ela
- Rhymes:Spanish/ela/4 syllables
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