pessebre
Catalan
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish pesebre, from Latin praesēpe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [pəˈse.βɾə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [pəˈse.bɾə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [peˈse.bɾe]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
pessebre m (plural pessebres)
- nativity, nativity scene
- Synonyms: naixement, betlem
Derived terms
- pessebrisme
- pessebrista
- pessebrístic
- pessebre vivent
Further reading
- “pesebre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “pessebre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “pessebre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007