centro
Portuguese
/ˈsẽ.tɾu/, /ˈsẽ.tɾo/
noun
Definitions
- centre middle of anything
- center point on a line midway between the ends
- downtown
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centrum (centre, center, center point, central) derived from Ancient Greek κέντρον (sharp point, center, goad, thorn, something with a sharp point, centre, centre of a circle, spur) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (pierce).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱent-
Gloss
pierce
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- centrum English
- cento Latin
- centralis Latin
- centrum Latin
- centrālis Latin
- cintrum Latin
- Zentrum German
- centrum Hungarian
- centro Italian
- centrum Dutch, Flemish
- centre French
- centrifuge French
- центр Russian
- centro Spanish, Castilian
- δίς Ancient Greek
- κέντρον Ancient Greek
- κεντέω Ancient Greek
- κεντρομυρσίνη Ancient Greek
- κοντός Ancient Greek
- *bʰewg- Proto-Indo-European
- *sey- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱent- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱent-r-om, *ḱentrom Proto-Indo-European
- sentrum Norwegian Bokmål
- anticentro Portuguese
- centrismo Portuguese
- centrista Portuguese
- circuncentro Portuguese
- centrum Swedish
- centrum Polish
- sentrum Norwegian Nynorsk
- केन्द्र Sanskrit
- centrum Czech
- قنطرة, اَلْقَنْطَرَة Arabic
- قَنْطَرَة Arabic
- centar Serbo-Croatian
- центар Serbo-Croatian
- centre Catalan, Valencian
- centro Galician
- կենտրոն Armenian
- centrs Latvian
- sist Latvian
- qendër Albanian
- centre Middle French
- центар Macedonian
- центр Ukrainian
- કેંદ્ર Gujarati
- centru Asturian
- ܩܶܢܛܪܳܘܢ Classical Syriac