esqueleto
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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, to dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skele- (“to parch, to wither”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -etu
- Hyphenation: es‧que‧le‧to
Noun
esqueleto m (plural esqueletos)
- (anatomy) skeleton (bones of an organism)
- (fiction) skeleton (undead)
- (figuratively, derogatory) a very thin person
- frame; framework
Hyponyms
- (bones of an organism): endoesqueleto, exoesqueleto
Meronyms
- (bones of an organism): osso
Derived terms
- homem-esqueleto m
- citoesqueleto m
- dermatoesqueleto m
- esquelético
- exoesqueleto m
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up”).
Pronunciation
Noun
esqueleto m (plural esqueletos)
Meronyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “esqueleto”, 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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