esqueleto

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, to dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skele- (“to parch, to wither”).

• Rhymes: -etu
• Hyphenation: es‧que‧le‧to

esqueleto m (plural esqueletos)

1. (anatomy) skeleton (bones of an organism)

   Synonyms: ossamenta, ossatura

2. (fiction) skeleton (undead)
3. (figuratively, derogatory) a very thin person

   Synonyms: chupado, cadáver, seco, anoréxico

   Antonyms: gordo, baleia, rolha de poço, hipopótamo, obeso

4. frame; framework

   Synonyms: estrutura, armação

• (bones of an organism): endoesqueleto, exoesqueleto

• (bones of an organism): osso

• homem-esqueleto m
• citoesqueleto m
• dermatoesqueleto m
• esquelético
• exoesqueleto m

• esquelético
• skeleton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up”).

• IPA^(key): /eskeˈleto/ [es.keˈle.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: es‧que‧le‧to

esqueleto m (plural esqueletos)

1. (anatomy) skeleton

   Synonyms: osamenta, (obsolete) osambre

2. (structure) frame (structural elements of a constructed object)

   Synonym: armazón

• hueso
• cartílago

• “esqueleto”, 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