confinamiento

Spanish

Etymology

From confinar +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /konfinaˈmjento/ [kõɱ.fi.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
Rhymes: -ento
Syllabification: con‧fi‧na‧mien‧to

Noun

confinamiento m (plural confinamientos)

lockdown (the confinement of people in their own homes)
confinement, detention (the act of confining or the state of being confined)

Further reading

“confinamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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