común

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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin commūnis.

Adjective

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común (epicene, plural comunes)

  1. common

Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin commūnis.

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Adjective

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común m or f (plural comúns)

  1. common
    Synonym: xeral
  2. (law) communal and untransferable property, usually woods and heathland, belonging to all the neighbours of a given village or parish
    Synonym: mancomún
  3. public toilet
    Synonyms: baño, servizo, váter
    • 1934, Vicente Risco, Miteleuropa, page 13:
      Entón, pra ensaiá-lo robinsonismo da gran cibdade — porque a gran cibdade é propiamente a Jungle con toda a súa fauna — fixen unha cousa heroica: fun ao común, e laveime co'aquela auga aceitosa e espesa do tren, que cheira a carbón de pedra e á química sospeitosa dos desenfeitantes
      Then, for testing the Robinsonism of the big city —for the big city is properly the Jungle [in English on the original] with all of its fauna— I did some heroic thing: I went to the public toilet and I washed myself with the train's oily and thick water, which smells to mineral carbon and disinfectants' suspicious chemistry

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin commūnis (inherited as a noun, but as an adjective probably a borrowing or semi-learned term, being first attested relatively late).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /koˈmun/ [koˈmũn]
  • Audio (Latin America):(file)
  • Rhymes: -un
  • Syllabification: co‧mún

Adjective

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común m or f (masculine and feminine plural comunes)

  1. common, ordinary
    Synonym: ordinario
  2. common, joint, shared
    Synonym: conjunto
  3. usual
    Synonym: usual

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Noun

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común m (plural comunes)

  1. all of the people or inhabitants of a city, town
  2. community
    Synonym: comunidad
  3. toilet
    Synonyms: baño, inodoro, excusado, aseo, retrete, servicio

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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “común”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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