oxígeno

Borrowed from French oxygène, from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”) + γένος (génos, “birth”), referring to oxygen's role in the formation of acids.

• IPA^(key): /oɡˈsixeno/ [oɣ̞ˈsi.xe.no]

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• Rhymes: -ixeno
• Syllabification: o‧xí‧ge‧no

oxígeno m (plural oxígenos)

1. oxygen

• “oxígeno”, 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
• oxígeno on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es