palimpsesto

Latin

Noun

palimpsēstō

dative/ablative singular of palimpsēstus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lĩ.piˈses.tu/, /pa.lĩpˈses.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pa.lĩ.piˈseʃ.tu/, /pa.lĩpˈseʃ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lĩpˈses.to/, /pa.lĩ.piˈses.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.lĩˈpseʃ.tu/

Hyphenation: pa‧limp‧ses‧to

Noun

palimpsesto m (plural palimpsestos)

palimpsest (a manuscript scraped clean for reuse)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /palimbˈsesto/ [pa.lĩmbˈses.t̪o], /palimˈsesto/ [pa.lĩmˈses.t̪o]
Rhymes: -esto
Syllabification: pa‧limp‧ses‧to

Noun

palimpsesto m (plural palimpsestos)

palimpsest

Further reading

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

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