cemento

See also: cementó, and cementò

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin caementum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡seˈmento]

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: ce‧men‧to

Noun

cemento (accusative singular cementon, plural cementoj, accusative plural cementojn)

1. cement

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: ce‧mén‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin caementum. Cognate to the doublet cimento.

Noun

cemento m (plural cementi)

1. cement
2. link, bond

Related terms

• cementare
• cementeria
• cementiero
• cementifero
• cementista
• cementizio
• cimento
• collante

 

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: چمنتو (çemento)
  • Turkish: çimento
    • → Northern Kurdish: çîmento
  • → Albanian: çimento
  • → Armenian: չիմէնթօ (čʻimēntʻō), չմանթո (čʻmantʻo)
  • → Greek: τσιμέντο (tsiménto)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cemento

1. first-person singular present indicative of cementare

Lithuanian

Noun

cemento m

1. genitive singular of cementas

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caementum. Doublet of cimento.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈmẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈmẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈmẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: ce‧men‧to

Noun

cemento m (plural cementos)

1. (anatomy) cement; cementum (layer of bone that covers the root of a tooth)
2. Obsolete spelling of cimento.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈmento/ [θeˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈmento/ [seˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: ce‧men‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin caementum. Doublet of cimiento.

Noun

cemento m (plural cementos)

1. cement

Derived terms

• cementar
• cementero

 

Related terms

• cimiento

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: semento
• → Karao: saminto
• → Quechua: simintu
• → Tagalog: semento
• → Waray-Waray: semento

Etymology 2

Verb

cemento

1. first-person singular present indicative of cementar

Further reading

• “cemento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28