camposanto

• campo santo

camposanto (plural camposantos or campisanti)

1. A burial place or cemetery, in Italian- or Spanish-speaking regions.

campo (“field”) +‎ santo (“holy”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkampoˈsanto/ [ˌkɑm.poˈs̺an̪.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -anto

camposanto m (plural camposantos)

1. cemetery

   Synonym: cemiterio

2. churchyard

   Synonyms: adro, sagrado

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “camposanto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “camposanto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “camposanto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• campo santo

Dating back at least to the Camposanto at Pisa, a novel city initiative begun in the thirteenth century. It derives from the Latin, campus sanctus (“holy field”).

camposanto m (plural campisanti)

1. burial place or cemetery

   Synonym: cimitero

• campo santo

• IPA^(key): /kampoˈsanto/ [kãm.poˈsãn̪.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -anto
• Syllabification: cam‧po‧san‧to

camposanto m (plural camposantos)

1. cemetery

   Synonym: cementerio

• → Mezquital Otomi: kamposanto

• “camposanto”, 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