centro

See also: Centro, centró, centrò, centro-, and -centro

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsen.tɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsen.tɾo]

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrar

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sentro/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -entro
• Hyphenation: cen‧tro

Noun

centro (accusative singular centron, plural centroj, accusative plural centrojn)

1. center (US), centre (UK)

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Borrowed from French centre.

Noun

centro m (plural centros) (ORB, broad)

1. centre

Derived terms

• centrar

References

• centre in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• centro in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈθentɾo/ [ˈθen̪.t̪ɾʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈθentɾo/ [ˈθen̪.t̪ɾʊ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ˈsentɾo/ [ˈsen̪.t̪ɾʊ]

• Rhymes: -entɾo
• Hyphenation: cen‧tro

Noun

centro m (plural centros)

1. centre
2. downtown

Derived terms

• centrismo
• centrista

Related terms

• central

Further reading

• “centro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sentro/

Noun

centro (plural centri)

1. center (US), centre (UK)

Italian

Pronunciation

• (standard, Tuscany) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛn.tro/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntro
  • Hyphenation: cèn‧tro
• (central Italian, Romanesco) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.tro/
  • Rhymes: -entro
  • Hyphenation: cén‧tro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”). The nonstandard pronunciation with -é- might be due to influence of entrare.

Noun

centro m (plural centri)

1. centre, center
2. middle, midpoint
3. core, heart
4. city centre/city center, downtown

Related terms

• accentrare
• centrafricano
• centrale
• centrare
• centratura
• centrifuga
• centrismo
• centrista
• centro commerciale
• centro-
• centrodestra
• centrosinistra
• centrosoma
• centrotavola
• concentrare
• decentrare
• incentrare

Descendants

• → Sardinian: tzentru

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛn.troː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪.t̪ro]

Noun

centrō

1. dative/ablative singular of centrum

References

• "centro", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Lithuanian

Noun

ceñtro

1. genitive singular of ceñtras (“centre”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tɾu/

• Rhymes: -ẽtɾu
• Hyphenation: cen‧tro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “to sting”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-.

Noun

centro m (plural centros)

1. centre (middle of anything)

   Synonym: meio

2. center (point on a line midway between the ends)
3. downtown
4. (Brazil, Umbanda) An Umbanda house of worship or temple

   Synonym: terreiro

Derived terms

• centrão
• centrismo
• centrista

Related terms

• central
• centralizar
• centrar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθentɾo/ [ˈθẽn̪.t̪ɾo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsentɾo/ [ˈsẽn̪.t̪ɾo] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -entɾo
• Syllabification: cen‧tro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “to sting”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-.

Noun

centro m (plural centros)

1. (general) center
2. (geometry) center
3. (politics) center, moderate tendencies or ideas
4. middle
5. core, heart

   Synonym: medio

6. (urban studies) city center, downtown
7. (soccer) cross (a pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch)

Derived terms

• centrar
• centrismo
• centrista
• centro comercial
• centro de alumnos
• centro de autoacceso
• centro de estudiantes
• centro de estudios
• centro de flores
• centro de gravedad
• centro de la nada
• centro de mesa
• centro de salud
• centro de sílaba
• centro de simetría
• centro derecha
• centro izquierda
• centro penitenciario
• centro recreativo

Related terms

• central
• céntrico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrar

Further reading

• “centro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• contre, corten, trocen