encallamiento

Spanish

Etymology

From encallar +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /enkaʝaˈmjento/ [ẽŋ.ka.ʝaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /enkaʝaˈmjento/ [ẽŋ.ka.ʝaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /enkaʎaˈmjento/ [ẽŋ.ka.ʎaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /enkaʃaˈmjento/ [ẽŋ.ka.ʃaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /enkaʒaˈmjento/ [ẽŋ.ka.ʒaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]

• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: en‧ca‧lla‧mien‧to

Noun

encallamiento m (plural encallamientos)

1. (nautical) grounding
   • 2016 December, “Encalla embarcación frente a la escénica”, in Frontera.info‎^[1]:

     La Segunda Región Naval, con sede en este puerto, encontró el barco pesquero sin tripulación, y se presentó en el lugar del encallamiento para inspeccionar la embarcación.

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Further reading

• “encallamiento”, 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