semáforo

Borrowed from French sémaphore, from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “sign”) and -φωρος (-phōros, “bearing, bearer”).

• Hyphenation: se‧má‧fo‧ro

semáforo m (plural semáforos)

1. traffic light

   Synonyms: (Brazil) sinaleiro, sinaleira, sinal, farol

2. semaphore (visual signalling system)
3. (computer architecture) semaphore (token used to restrict and allow access to a shared resource)

• “semáforo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “semáforo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French sémaphore, from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “sign”), and -foro derived from -φωρος (-phōros, “bearing, bearer”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈmafoɾo/ [seˈma.fo.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -afoɾo
• Syllabification: se‧má‧fo‧ro

semáforo m (plural semáforos)

1. traffic light
2. semaphore, flag semaphore

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