centro

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsen.tɾo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsen.tɾu/

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative form of centrar

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sentro/
• Rhymes: -entro

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

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

1. center (US), centre (UK)

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”)

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, Royal Galician Academy.

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sentro/

Noun

centro (plural centri)

1. center (US), centre (UK)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛn.tro/, /ˈt͡ʃen.tro/
• Rhymes: -ɛntro

Etymology 1

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

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-
• centro commerciale
• centrodestra
• centrosinistra
• centrosoma
• centrotavola
• concentrare
• decentrare
• incentrare

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrare

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈken.troː/, [ˈkɛn̪t̪roː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.tro/, [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪rɔ]

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)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tɾu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tɾu/, [ˈs̻ẽ̞ɪ̯̃ⁿ.t̪ɾʊ]
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tɾo/
• Hyphenation: cen‧tro
• Rhymes: -ẽtɾu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “I 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

Derived terms

• centrismo
• centrista

Related terms

• central
• centralizar
• centrar

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of centrar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Latin America)

  (file)

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. center
2. (geometry) center
3. (politics) center, moderate tendencies or ideas
4. middle
5. core, heart
6. (urban studies) city center, downtown

Derived terms

• centrar
• centrismo
• centrista
• centro comercial
• centro de alumnos
• centro de autoacceso
• centro de estudiantes
• centro de estudios
• centro de la nada
• centro derecha
• centro de salud
• centro izquierda
• centro penitenciario

 

Related terms

• central
• céntrico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

centro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of centrar.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• contre, corten, trocen