cenáculo

See also: cenaculo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cēnāculum (“dining room”), from cēna (“dinner”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈna.ku.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈna.ku.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈna.ku.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈna.ku.lu/

• Rhymes: -akulu
• Hyphenation: ce‧ná‧cu‧lo

Noun

cenáculo m (plural cenáculos)

1. cenacle

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cēnāculum (“dining room”), from cēna (“dinner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈnakulo/ [θeˈna.ku.lo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈnakulo/ [seˈna.ku.lo]
• Rhymes: -akulo
• Syllabification: ce‧ná‧cu‧lo

Noun

cenáculo m (plural cenáculos)

1. (Christianity) cenacle

   el cenáculo de Jesús

   The Cenacle

2. (by extension) cenacle; gathering
   • 1995, José Promis Ojeda, Testimonios y documentos de la literatura chilena:

     Dice Vega que todos los escritores de imaginación formamos un cenáculo exclusivista en el cual incluye a Díaz Arrieta

     Vega says that all the fic writers form an exclusive clique, which includes Díaz Arrieta

   • 1883, Benito Pérez Galdós, “chapter 56”, in El doctor Centeno:

     Era la estatua de la moral pública alumbrando el mundo, y expulsando al vicio del cenáculo de las buenas costumbres.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• cena
• cenar

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: senakulo
• → Tagalog: senakulo

Further reading

• “cenáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16