skelet

• scelet

Learned borrowing from Late Latin sceletus, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós).

skelet (plural skelets)

1. (obsolete) A skeleton.

• “skelet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Tekles

Inherited from Dutch skelet, from German Skelett, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”).

skelet (plural skelette, diminutive skeletjie)

1. skeleton

   Synonym: geraamte

From Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós).

• IPA^(key): /skɛˈlɛt/

skelet m (plural skeletë, definite skeleti, definite plural skeletët)

1. skeleton

   Synonym: zgorre

Borrowed from German Skelett, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”).

• IPA^(key): /skəˈlɛt/, /skeːˈlɛt/

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• Hyphenation: ske‧let
• Rhymes: -ɛt

skelet n (plural skeletten, diminutive skeletje n)

1. skeleton (support structure of an organism; ensemble of animal bones)

   Synonym: geraamte

2. (figurative) frame, skeleton (supporting frame of an inanimate or non-animal object or entity)

• Afrikaans: skelet
• → Papiamentu: skelèt, skalet

• kletse

From Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós).

skèlet m inan (Cyrillic spelling скѐлет)

1. (anatomy) skeleton

From Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós).

• IPA^(key): /skəlɛt/

skelet n (plural skeletten, diminutive skeletsje)

1. skeleton