confinamiento
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konfinaˈmjento/ [kõɱ.fi.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: con‧fi‧na‧mien‧to
Noun
confinamiento m (plural confinamientos)
- lockdown (the confinement of people in their own homes)
- confinement, detention (the act of confining or the state of being confined)
Further reading
- “confinamiento”, 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