palimpsesto
Latin
Noun
palimpsēstō
- dative/ablative singular of palimpsēstus
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.lĩ.piˈses.tu/, /pa.lĩpˈses.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /pa.lĩ.piˈseʃ.tu/, /pa.lĩpˈseʃ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.lĩpˈses.to/, /pa.lĩ.piˈses.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.lĩˈpseʃ.tu/
- Hyphenation: pa‧limp‧ses‧to
Noun
palimpsesto m (plural palimpsestos)
- palimpsest (a manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /palimbˈsesto/ [pa.lĩmbˈses.t̪o], /palimˈsesto/ [pa.lĩmˈses.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -esto
- Syllabification: pa‧limp‧ses‧to
Noun
palimpsesto m (plural palimpsestos)
Further reading
- “palimpsesto”, 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