acotamiento
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akotaˈmjento/ [a.ko.t̪aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: a‧co‧ta‧mien‧to
Noun
acotamiento m (plural acotamientos)
- (road transport, Mexico) hard shoulder, emergency lane (part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency)
- marking off, fencing in, limiting
Further reading
- “acotamiento”, 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
- “acotamiento”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
- “acotamiento”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019