🇪🇸 Spanish

semáforos

masculine

los semáforos

traffic lights

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semáforos
/los seˈmafoɾos/
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How do you say semáforos in Spanish?

IPA
/los seˈmafoɾos/

How do you pronounce semáforos in Spanish?

semáforos is pronounced /los seˈmafoɾos/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El semáforo rojo está dañado y necesita reparación urgente.

The red traffic light is broken and needs urgent repair.

Ese semáforo nuevo es muy moderno porque tiene un sistema inteligente.

That new traffic light is very modern because it has an intelligent system.

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Why is it masculine?

Semáforos is masculine because it derives from Greek "sema" (sign) + "phoros" (bearer/carrier), and the Spanish word inherited the masculine gender from Latin "semaphorus," which treated compound words ending in "-phorus" as masculine nouns. Like many technical terms borrowed through Latin from Greek, it naturally took masculine gender as the default for such formations.

What is the Spanish word for traffic lights?

The Spanish word for traffic lights is los semáforos — masculine.

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