cortafuegos
Spanish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of corta (“to cut”) + fuegos (“fires”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cortafuegos m (plural cortafuegos)
- firebreak, fire line, firetrail (Australia) (An area cleared of all flammable material in the woods to prevent a fire from spreading across it)
- (architecture) firewall (a fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle)
- Synonyms: muro cortafuegos, muro cortafuego
- (computing, also figurative) firewall
- Synonym: firewall
- 2020 July 9, “Sánchez plantea revisar la inviolabilidad del Rey en la Constitución”, in El País[1]:
- El Gobierno quiere salvaguardar a la Monarquía del escándalo causado por las informaciones sobre las cuentas de Juan Carlos I en paraísos fiscales levantando un cortafuegos entre el rey Felipe VI y su padre y planteando una reforma constitucional que limite la inviolabilidad del jefe del Estado.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- plural of cortafuego
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cortafuegos”, 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