cementerio

From Spanish cementerio.

cementerio

1. cemetery

   Synonym: camposanto

Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion, “sleeping chamber”). Probably influenced by Spanish cemento, whence the intrusive n.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θemenˈteɾjo/ [θe.mẽn̪ˈt̪e.ɾjo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /semenˈteɾjo/ [se.mẽn̪ˈt̪e.ɾjo]

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• Rhymes: -eɾjo
• Syllabification: ce‧men‧te‧rio

cementerio m (plural cementerios)

1. cemetery

   Synonym: (Andalusia, Latin America) panteón

2. junkyard, scrapyard

• Chavacano: cementerio
• → Bikol Central: sementeryo
• → Cebuano: sementeryo
• → Ilocano: sementerio
• → Tagalog: sementeryo

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