disyuntor

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish disyunto

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Spanish -or

Spanish disyuntor

From disyunto + -or.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /disʝunˈtoɾ/ [d̪iz.ʝũn̪ˈt̪oɾ]

• IPA^(key): /disʝunˈtoɾ/ [d̪iz.ʝũn̪ˈt̪oɾ] (everywhere but Pampas and southern Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /disʃunˈtoɾ/ [d̪is.ʃũn̪ˈt̪oɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /disʒunˈtoɾ/ [d̪is.ʒũn̪ˈt̪oɾ] (elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: dis‧yun‧tor

Noun

disyuntor m (plural disyuntores)

1. residual-current device

Further reading

• “disyuntor”, 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