orfelinato
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɾfeliˈnato/ [oɾ.fe.liˈna.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ato
- Syllabification: or‧fe‧li‧na‧to
Noun
orfelinato m (plural orfelinatos)
- orphanage
- Synonym: orfanato
- 2016 July, “Conoce Tempo, el nuevo espectáculo que hace vibrar la carpa de La Tarumba”, in El Comercio[1]:
- La inspiración, la novela Momo, trata de una niña que escapa de un orfelinato y llega a un teatro abandonado.
- The inspiration, the novel Momo, is about a girl who escapes from an orphanage and finds herself in an abandoned theater.
Further reading
- “orfelinato”, 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