centro

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsen.tɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsen.tɾo]

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrar

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sentro/

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• Rhymes: -entro
• Hyphenation: cen‧tro

centro (accusative singular centron, plural centroj, accusative plural centrojn)

1. center (US), centre (UK)

Borrowed from French centre.

centro m (plural centros) (ORB, broad)

1. centre

• centrar

• centre in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• centro in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Learned borrowing from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”).

• Rhymes: -entɾo
• Hyphenation: cen‧tro

centro m (plural centros)

1. centre
2. downtown

• “centro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sentro/

centro (plural centri)

1. center (US), centre (UK)

• (standard, Tuscany) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛn.tro/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntro
  • Hyphenation: cèn‧tro
• (central Italian, Romanesco) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.tro/^[1]
  • Rhymes: -entro
  • Hyphenation: cén‧tro

Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”). The nonstandard pronunciation with -é- might be due to influence of entrare.

centro m (plural centri)

1. centre, center
2. middle, midpoint
3. core, heart
4. city centre/city center, downtown

• → Sardinian: tzentru

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrare

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛn.troː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪.t̪ro]

centrō

1. dative/ablative singular of centrum

• "centro", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

ceñtro

1. genitive singular of ceñtras (“centre”)

• Rhymes: -ẽtɾu
• Hyphenation: cen‧tro

Borrowed from Latin centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “to sting”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-.

centro m (plural centros)

1. centre (middle of anything)

   Synonym: meio

2. center (point on a line midway between the ends)
3. downtown
4. (Brazil, Umbanda) An Umbanda house of worship or temple

   Synonym: terreiro

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrar

• IPA^(key): /ˈθentɾo/ [ˈθẽn̪.t̪ɾo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsentɾo/ [ˈsẽn̪.t̪ɾo] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -entɾo
• Syllabification: cen‧tro

Borrowed from Latin centrum,^[1] from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “to sting”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-.

centro m (plural centros)

1. (general) center
2. (geometry) center
3. (politics) center, moderate tendencies or ideas
4. middle
5. core, heart

   Synonym: medio

6. (urban studies) city center, downtown
7. (soccer) cross (a pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

centro

1. first-person singular present indicative of centrar

• “centro”, 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

• contre, corten, trocen