centro
Catalan
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡sentro]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -entro
- Hyphenation: cen‧tro
Franco-Provençal
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”).
Related terms
Further reading
- “centro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Italian
Pronunciation
- (standard, Tuscany) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛn.tro/
- Rhymes: -ɛntro
- Hyphenation: cèn‧tro
- (central Italy, Rome) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.tro/[1]
- Rhymes: -entro
- Hyphenation: cén‧tro
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”). The nonstandard pronunciation with -é- might be due to influence of entrare.
Noun
centro m (plural centri)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Sardinian: tzentru
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
References
- centro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈken.troː/, [ˈkɛn̪t̪roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.tro/, [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪ro]
References
- centro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Lithuanian
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsẽ.tɾu/
- Rhymes: -ẽtɾu
- Hyphenation: cen‧tro
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “to sting”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-.
Noun
centro m (plural centros)
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθentɾo/ [ˈθẽn̪.t̪ɾo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsentɾo/ [ˈsẽn̪.t̪ɾo]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -entɾo
- Syllabification: cen‧tro
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin centrum,[1] from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “to sting”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-.
Noun
centro m (plural centros)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
References
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
- “centro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014