abismo

From Late Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”). Compare Spanish abismo, English abyss, Italian abisso, Irish aibhéis, French abîme.

• IPA^(key): [aˈbismo]
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• Rhymes: -ismo
• Hyphenation: a‧bis‧mo

abismo (accusative singular abismon, plural abismoj, accusative plural abismojn)

1. (geography) abyss
2. (figuratively) oblivion
3. (figuratively) gulf, irreconcilable difference

   Inter niaj opinioj estas abismo.

   There is a vast gulf between our opinions.

• abysmo (alternative forms)

From Late Latin *abyssimus, from Latin abyssus (“bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈβizmo/

abismo m (plural abismos)

1. abyss, the deep
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 37r.

     Qvando entro noe en el archa auẏe. dc. annos e fue el diluuio de las aguas abrieron ſe todas las fótanas del abiſmo ¬ fueron abiertas las fẏnieſtras de los cielos e plouio ſobre la tŕa. xL. dias ¬. xL. noches.

     When Noah entered the ark he was six hundred years old. And the deluge of the waters took place. All the fountains of the deep were opened and so too the windows of the heavens. And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

• Spanish: abismo

• abysmo (obsolete)

Borrowed from Late Latin *abyssimus, from Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”), ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ βυσσός (bussós, “depth”). Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese avisso.

• Hyphenation: a‧bis‧mo

abismo m (plural abismos)

1. abyss (a bottomless or unfathomed depth)

   Synonyms: precipício, despenhadeiro

For quotations using this term, see Citations:abismo.

• abismal
• abissal
• abismar

• “abismo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Old Spanish avismo, from Vulgar Latin *abīsmus, from Late Latin abyssus, from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈbismo/ [aˈβ̞iz.mo]

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• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: a‧bis‧mo

abismo m (plural abismos)

1. abyss (a bottomless or unfathomed depth)

   Synonyms: precipicio, sima

abismo

1. first-person singular present indicative of abismar

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