durmiente
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dormir (“to sleep”) + -iente. The sense “railway sleeper” is a semantic loan from English sleeper.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]durmiente m or f (masculine and feminine plural durmientes)
Derived terms
[edit]- célula durmiente (“sleeper cell”)
Noun
[edit]durmiente m or f by sense (plural durmientes)
- sleeper (person or creature who is sleeping)
- (rail transport, Latin America) railway sleeper, tie
- Synonym: traviesa
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “durmiente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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