marcapasos
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of marca (“to mark”) + pasos (“paces”). Calque of English pacemaker.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marcapasos m (plural marcapasos)
- pacemaker (medical implement)
Noun
[edit]marcapasos
References
[edit]- ^ “marcapasos”, 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
Further reading
[edit]- “marcapasos”, 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
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- Spanish verb-object compounds
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