guardameta
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Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of guarda (“to keep; to guard (originally)”) + meta (“goal”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guardameta m or f by sense (plural guardametas)
- goalkeeper (player that protects a goal)
- Synonym: portero
Further reading
[edit]- “guardameta”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish verb-object compounds
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/eta
- Rhymes:Spanish/eta/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish nouns with irregular gender
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple genders
- Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense