cetáceo

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Cetacea.

• Rhymes: -asju, (Brazil) -aseu
• Hyphenation: ce‧tá‧ce‧o

cetáceo (feminine cetácea, masculine plural cetáceos, feminine plural cetáceas)

1. cetacean; cetaceous (pertaining to the zoologic order Cetacea)

cetáceo m (plural cetáceos)

1. cetacean (any animal belonging to the order Cetacea)

From translingual Cetacea, from Latin cētus, from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “whale, sea monster”), + translingual -acea, from Latin -ācea, neuter plural of -āceus (“resembling, -aceous”) (cognate with Spanish -áceo).

• IPA^(key): /θeˈtaθeo/ [θeˈt̪a.θe.o] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seˈtaseo/ [seˈt̪a.se.o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθeo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -aseo (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ce‧tá‧ce‧o

cetáceo (feminine cetácea, masculine plural cetáceos, feminine plural cetáceas)

1. cetaceous

cetáceo m (plural cetáceos)

1. cetacean

• “cetáceo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024