centro

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

Catalan

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative form of centrar

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sen.tro/

Noun

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

1. center (US), centre (UK)

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Galician

Noun

centro m (plural centros)

1. centre
2. downtown

Related terms

• central

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Ido

Noun

centro (plural centri)

1. center (US), centre (UK)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin centrum.

Pronunciation

• cèntro, IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛntro/

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
• centrista
• centro-

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

Verb

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrare

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Latin

Noun

centrō

1. dative singular of centrum
2. ablative singular of centrum

References

• du Cange, Charles (1883), “centro”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tɾu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tɾo/
• Hyphenation: cen‧tro

Noun

centro m (plural centros)

1. centre (middle of anything)
2. center (point on a line midway between the ends)
3. downtown

Synonyms

• (middle of anything) meio

Related terms

• central, centralizar, centrar

Verb

centro

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

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Latin America)

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• (Castilian) IPA^(key): [ˈθe̞n.tɾo̞]
• (Others) IPA^(key): [ˈse̞n.tɾo̞]
• See also: cetro, cedro

Noun

centro m (plural centros)

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

Related terms

• central

Derived terms

• centrar
• céntrico

Verb

centro

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

Anagrams

• contre, corten, trocen

References

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