🇪🇸 Spanish

cimientos

masculine

los cimientos

foundations

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cimientos
/los θiˈmjentos/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cimientos in Spanish?

IPA
/los θiˈmjentos/

How do you pronounce cimientos in Spanish?

cimientos is pronounced /los θiˈmjentos/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El cimiento profundo de la casa fue destruido por el terremoto.

The deep foundation of the house was destroyed by the earthquake.

El cimiento antiguo requiere reparación inmediata antes de construir el nuevo edificio.

The old foundation requires immediate repair before building the new structure.

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Why is it masculine?

Cimientos is masculine. It derives from Latin "caementum" (cement, building material), which was a neuter noun. However, the gender shift from neuter to masculine in Spanish occurred because Latin neuter nouns typically evolved into masculine forms in Spanish when the nominative and accusative endings merged. The -o ending in Spanish is characteristically masculine, and this regular phonetic evolution from Latin neuter -um endings to Spanish -o endings resulted in these words becoming masculine rather than feminine.

What is the Spanish word for foundations?

The Spanish word for foundations is los cimientos — masculine.

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