orfanato
Galician
Noun
orfanato m (plural orfanatos)
- orphanage (a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans)
Related terms
- orfo
Further reading
- “orfanato” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Etymology
From órfão (“orphan”) + -ato.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -atu
Noun
orfanato m (plural orfanatos)
- orphanage (a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans)
- Cresci em um orfanato.
- I grew up in an orphanage.
Further reading
- “orfanato” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
huérfano (“orphan”) + -ato
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɾfaˈnato/ [oɾ.faˈna.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ato
- Syllabification: or‧fa‧na‧to
Noun
orfanato m (plural orfanatos)
- orphanage (a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans)
Further reading
- “orfanato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014