encuentro
Old Spanish
Etymology
Deverbal from encontrar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enˈkwentɾo/
Noun
encuentro m (plural encuentros)
- encounter, meeting
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r.
- Corrio eſau aencuétro de ſo ermano. E abraçol ¬ echo ſobre ſo cuello el braço. E ſaludolo. ¬ omillos eſau. E toda ſu cópána de iacob.
- Esau ran to meet his brother, and he embraced him and put his arm over his neck. And he greeted him and bowed before Esau, and so too all of Jacob's company.
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r.
Descendants
- Spanish: encuentro
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enˈkwentɾo/ [ẽŋˈkwẽn̪.t̪ɾo]
- Rhymes: -entɾo
- Syllabification: en‧cuen‧tro
Etymology 1
Deverbal from encontrar. From Old Spanish encuentro
Noun
encuentro m (plural encuentros)
- encounter, meeting
- dispute, row
- (sports) match, game
- Synonym: partido
- (automotive) crash, collision
- Synonyms: choque, accidente
- (military) skirmish, clash
- Synonym: escaramuza
- (anatomy) underarm, armpit
- Synonyms: axila, sobaco
Derived terms
- encontronazo
- encontrón
Related terms
- encontrar
See also
- junta
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
encuentro
- first-person singular present indicative of encontrar
Further reading
- “encuentro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014