espectáculo
Portuguese
Noun
espectáculo m (plural espectáculos)
- Superseded spelling of espetáculo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin spectaculum. Cognate with English spectacle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /espeɡˈtakulo/ [es.peɣ̞ˈt̪a.ku.lo]
- Rhymes: -akulo
- Syllabification: es‧pec‧tá‧cu‧lo
Noun
espectáculo m (plural espectáculos)
- show, performance (play, dance, some act or series of acts of public entertainment, often live)
- Es el mejor espectáculo en Broadway.
- It's the best show on Broadway.
- spectacle, show
- He oído que hiciste todo un espectáculo.
- I heard you put on quite a show.
- Vale, ahora sólo estamos dando un espectáculo de nosotros.
- Okay, now we're just making a spectacle of ourselves.
- Nunca había visto semejante gran espectáculo como eso.
- Never had I seen such a grand spectacle as that.
Hyponyms
- espectáculo de danza (“dance show”)
- espectáculo de marionetas (“puppet show, marionette show”)
- espectáculo de títeres
Derived terms
- mundo del espectáculo
- industria del espectáculo (“entertainment industry”)
Related terms
- espectacular (“spectacular”)
- espectador (“spectator”)
Further reading
- “espectáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014