acetábulo
See also: acetabulo
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.seˈta.bu.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.seˈta.bu.lo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.sɨˈta.bu.lu/ [ɐ.sɨˈta.βu.lu]
- Hyphenation: a‧ce‧tá‧bu‧lo
Noun
acetábulo m (plural acetábulos)
- (anatomy) acetabulum (bony cup that receives the head of the thigh bone)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin acētābulum, the anatomical meaning being a calque of Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθeˈtabulo/ [a.θeˈt̪a.β̞u.lo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aseˈtabulo/ [a.seˈt̪a.β̞u.lo]
- Rhymes: -abulo
- Syllabification: a‧ce‧tá‧bu‧lo
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- “acetábulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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