confinamiento

Spanish

Etymology

From confinar +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konfinaˈmjento/ [kõɱ.fi.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: con‧fi‧na‧mien‧to

Noun

confinamiento m (plural confinamientos)

1. lockdown (the confinement of people in their own homes)
2. confinement, detention (the act of confining or the state of being confined)

Further reading

• “confinamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10