departamento
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French département.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]departamento m (plural departamentos)
- department (administrative subdivision of an organisation)
- département (county-level administrative unit in various French-speaking countries)
References
[edit]- ^ “departamento”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- ^ “departamento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Further reading
[edit]- “departamento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French département.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]departamento m (plural departamentos)
- department
- Synonym: sección
- (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) apartment, flat
- Synonyms: (Colombia, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Uruguay, Venezuela) apartamento, (Spain) piso, dpto
- 2025 January 14, Héctor Gambini, “El desastre en la escena del crimen del fiscal Nisman: unas 88 personas estuvieron en el departamento”, in Clarín, page 6:
- El fiscal Alberto Nisman estaba en el baño de su departamento con un tiro en la cabeza.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: departamento
Further reading
[edit]- “departamento”, 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
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Borrowed from Spanish departamento.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /depaɾtaˈmento/ [d̪ɛ.pɐɾ.t̪ɐˈmɛn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: de‧par‧ta‧men‧to
Noun
[edit]departamento (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜉᜇ᜔ᜆᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- department
- Synonym: kagawaran
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- pt:Administrative divisions
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