suspensorio

From Italian sospensorio, Spanish suspensorio.

• IPA^(key): /suspensoˈrio/

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• Hyphenation: sus‧pen‧so‧ri‧o

suspensorio (accusative singular suspensorion, plural suspensorioj, accusative plural suspensoriojn)

1. jockstrap

Borrowed from Medieval Latin suspēnsōrius (literally “suitable for hanging; sling”), from Latin suspēnsus, perfect passive participle of suspendō (“to hang, to suspend”).

• IPA^(key): /suspenˈsoɾjo/ [sus.pẽnˈso.ɾjo]
• Rhymes: -oɾjo
• Syllabification: sus‧pen‧so‧rio

suspensorio m (plural suspensorios)

1. jockstrap
2. suspensory

• “suspensorio”, 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