departamento

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French département.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.taˈmẽ.tu/ [de.pah.taˈmẽ.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.taˈmẽ.tu/ [de.pah.taˈmẽ.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /de.paɾ.taˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.taˈmẽ.tu/ [de.paχ.taˈmẽ.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.paɻ.taˈmẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.pɐɾ.tɐˈmẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: de‧par‧ta‧men‧to

Noun

departamento m (plural departamentos)

1. department (administrative subdivision of an organisation)
2. (government) département (county-level administrative unit in various French-speaking countries)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French département.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /depaɾtaˈmento/ [d̪e.paɾ.t̪aˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: de‧par‧ta‧men‧to

Noun

departamento m (plural departamentos)

1. department
2. (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) apartment, flat

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Uruguay, Venezuela) apartamento, (Spain) piso

Derived terms

• tienda por departamentos

 

Further reading

• “departamento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish departamento.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /depaɾtaˈmento/ [d̪ɛ.pɐɾ.t̪ɐˈmɛn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: de‧par‧ta‧men‧to

Noun

departamento (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜉᜇ᜔ᜆᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. department

   Synonym: kagawaran