semáforo
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- traffic light
- semaphore, flag semaphore
Etymology
Borrowed from French sémaphore derived from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sign, mark, token).
Origin
Ancient Greek
σῆμα
Gloss
sign, mark, token
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
🛑
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- semaphore English
- semasphere English
- sematology English
- seme English
- tetrasemic English
- arum Latin
- sémaphore French
- semaforizar Spanish, Castilian
- σῆμα Ancient Greek
- ᾰ̓πό Ancient Greek
- *dʰyeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰyéh₂mn̥ Proto-Indo-European
- semáforo Portuguese
- semafor Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- σήμα Greek (modern)
- סִימָן Hebrew (modern)
- סימן Hebrew (modern)
- semafor Crimean Tatar