cenáculo
See also: cenaculo
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cēnāculum (“dining room”), from cēna (“dinner”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /seˈna.ku.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /seˈna.ku.lo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨˈna.ku.lu/
- Rhymes: -akulu
- Hyphenation: ce‧ná‧cu‧lo
Noun
cenáculo m (plural cenáculos)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cēnāculum (“dining room”), from cēna (“dinner”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θeˈnakulo/ [θeˈna.ku.lo] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /seˈnakulo/ [seˈna.ku.lo] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -akulo
- Syllabification: ce‧ná‧cu‧lo
Noun
cenáculo m (plural cenáculos)
- (Christianity) cenacle
- el cenáculo de Jesús
- The Cenacle
- (by extension) cenacle; gathering
- 1883, Benito Pérez Galdós, “chapter 56”, in El doctor Centeno:
- Era la estatua de la moral pública alumbrando el mundo, y expulsando al vicio del cenáculo de las buenas costumbres.
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- 1995, José Promis Ojeda, Testimonios y documentos de la literatura chilena:
- Dice Vega que todos los escritores de imaginación formamos un cenáculo exclusivista en el cual incluye a Díaz Arrieta
- Vega says that all the fic writers form an exclusive clique, which includes Díaz Arrieta
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “cenáculo”, 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