cimiento
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /θiˈmjento/ [θiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈmjento/ [siˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: ci‧mien‧to
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Latin caementum. Cognate with the borrowed doublet cemento. Compare English cement.
Noun
[edit]cimiento m (plural cimientos) (chiefly in the plural)
- foundation (the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure)
- 2019 April 16, María Laura Avignolo, “Con un aluvión de donaciones prometen reconstruir Notre Dame en sólo cinco años”, in Clarín[1]:
- En el amanecer del martes emergía a la luz del día como un espectro gris y gótico, que aun humeaba pero estaba firme en sus cimientos.
- At dawn Tuesday it emerged in daylight like a gray, Gothic specter, that was still smoking but firm in its foundation.
- 2020 May 7, “Los efectos de la crisis según Zizek: “No habrá ningún regreso a la normalidad””, in La Vanguardia[2], archived from the original on 10 May 2020:
- Lo único que está claro es que el virus destruirá los cimientos de nuestras vidas, provocando no sólo una enorme cantidad de sufrimiento, sino un desastre económico posiblemente peor que la Gran Recesión.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- foundation, groundwork (the result of the work to begin something)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]cimiento
Further reading
[edit]- “cimiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- cimiento on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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