espectáculo
Portuguese
Noun
espectáculo m (plural espectáculos)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of espetáculo. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin spectaculum. Cognate with English spectacle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /espeɡˈtakulo/ [es.peɣ̞ˈt̪a.ku.lo]
- Rhymes: -akulo
- Syllabification: es‧pec‧tá‧cu‧lo
Noun
espectáculo m (plural espectáculos)
- show, performance (play, dance, some act or series of acts of public entertainment, often live)
- Es el mejor espectáculo en Broadway.
- It's the best show on Broadway.
- spectacle, show
- He oído que hiciste todo un espectáculo.
- I heard you put on quite a show.
- Vale, ahora sólo estamos dando un espectáculo de nosotros.
- Okay, now we're just making a spectacle of ourselves.
- Nunca había visto semejante gran espectáculo como eso.
- Never had I seen such a grand spectacle as that.
Hyponyms
- espectáculo de danza (“dance show”)
- espectáculo de marionetas (“puppet show, marionette show”)
- espectáculo de títeres
Derived terms
- industria del espectáculo (“entertainment industry”)
- mundo del espectáculo
Related terms
- espectacular (“spectacular”)
- espectador (“spectator”)
Further reading
- “espectáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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