palimpsesto

Latin

Noun

palimpsēstō

1. dative/ablative singular of palimpsēstus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lĩ.piˈses.tu/, /pa.lĩpˈses.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lĩ.piˈses.tu/, /pa.lĩpˈses.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pa.lĩ.piˈseʃ.tu/, /pa.lĩpˈseʃ.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.lĩpˈseʃ.tu/

• Hyphenation: pa‧limp‧ses‧to

Noun

palimpsesto m (plural palimpsestos)

1. palimpsest (a manuscript scraped clean for reuse)

Further reading

• “palimpsesto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “palimpsesto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palimbˈsesto/ [pa.lĩmbˈses.t̪o], /palimˈsesto/ [pa.lĩmˈses.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: pa‧limp‧ses‧to

Noun

palimpsesto m (plural palimpsestos)

1. palimpsest

Further reading

• “palimpsesto”, 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