penitenciario

Spanish

Adjective

penitenciario (feminine penitenciaria, masculine plural penitenciarios, feminine plural penitenciarias)

1. related to penitentiaries
   • 2009 June 8, Inder Bugarin, “Bélgica busca prisiones en alquiler”, in BBC Mundo‎^[1]:

     ...la comunidad penitenciaria se opone.

     ...the penitentiary community is opposed.

Derived terms

• centro penitenciario

 

Related terms

• penitenciaría

 

Further reading

• “penitenciario”, 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