carpintero

Borrowed from Spanish carpintero (“carpenter; woodpecker”).

carpintero (plural carpinteros)

1. The acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus, a woodpecker of southwestern North America, noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees.

• certoparin

From Late Latin carpentārius (“carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“wagon-maker, carriage-maker”).

• IPA^(key): /kaɾpinˈteɾo/ [kaɾ.pĩn̪ˈt̪e.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: car‧pin‧te‧ro

carpintero m (plural carpinteros, feminine carpintera, feminine plural carpinteras)

1. carpenter
2. woodpecker

• carpintería

• → Cebuano: karpentero
• → Tagalog: karpintero

• “carpintero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014