cenote

See also: cénote

English

WOTD – 13 October 2015

Etymology

From Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya tsʼonoʼot (“hole with water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈnoʊteɪ/

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• IPA^(key): /səˈnoʊtiː/

Noun

cenote (plural cenotes)

1. A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.

Translations

deep natural well or sinkhole

• Arabic: سِينُوتِي m (sinōtē)
• Basque: zenote, cenote
• Danish: ferskvandshul ?, cenote ?
• Dutch: cenote m
• Finnish: sortumakaivo
• French: cénote (fr) m
• German: Cenote m or f or n
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: סנוטה m (senóte)
• Italian: cenote m
• Japanese: セノーテ (senōte)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: cenote m
• Russian: сено́т m (senót)
• Serbo-Croatian: cenota f
• Spanish: cenote (es) m
• Swedish: cenote c
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼonoʼot

Anagrams

• octene

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya tsʼonoʼot (“hole in water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌseːˈnoː.tə/
• Hyphenation: cenote
• Rhymes: -oːtə

Noun

cenote m (plural cenotes)

1. cenote

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya tsʼonoʼot (“hole in water”).

Noun

cenote m (invariable)

1. cenote

Anagrams

• contee, nocete

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Yucatec Maya tsʼonoʼot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈnote/ [θeˈno.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈnote/ [seˈno.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: ce‧no‧te

Noun

cenote m (plural cenotes)

1. cenote

Descendants

• → Dutch: cenote
• → English: cenote
• → French: cénote
• → Italian: cenote

Further reading

• “cenote”, 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

Swedish

Etymology

From Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya tsʼonoʼot (“hole in water”).

Noun

cenote c

1. cenote

Declension

Declension of cenote

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cenote	cenotes
	definite	cenoten	cenotens
plural	indefinite	cenoter	cenoters
	definite	cenoterna	cenoternas