descanso
English
WOTD – 5 August 2015

Descanso by the side of the Route 250 in the USA
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛsˈkɑːnsoʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
descanso (plural descansos)
- A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
- The highways of the USA are littered with descansos, silent reminders of automobile accidents.
Asturian
Catalan
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /desˈkɐ̃.su/, /d͡ʒisˈkɐ̃.su/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /deʃˈkɐ̃.su/, /d͡ʒiʃˈkɐ̃.su/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /desˈkɐ̃.so/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨʃˈkɐ̃.su/
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃su
- Hyphenation: des‧can‧so
Noun
descanso m (plural descansos)
Related terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desˈkanso/ [d̪esˈkãn.so]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -anso
- Syllabification: des‧can‧so
Etymology 1
Deverbal from descansar.
Noun
descanso m (plural descansos)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “descanso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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