acetábulo

See also: acetabulo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.seˈta.bu.lu/

• (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)

1. (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): /aθeˈtabulo/ [a.θeˈt̪a.β̞u.lo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /aseˈtabulo/ [a.seˈt̪a.β̞u.lo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -abulo
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧tá‧bu‧lo

Noun

acetábulo m (plural acetábulos)

1. (obsolete) vinegar cup
2. (anatomy) acetabulum

Derived terms

• acetabular

References

1. ^ https://dicciomed.usal.es/palabra/acetabulo

Further reading

• “acetábulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024