chimenea
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Spanish chimenea, from French cheminée. Doublet of chimney.
Pronunciation
Noun
chimenea (plural chimeneas)
- A Mexican outdoor oven with bulbous body and usually a vertical smoke vent or chimney.
- 2015 April 3, Alan Titchmarsh, “Why you should get outdoors this Easter: A garden should be a joy so embrace guilty pleasures from hot tubs to fire pits this spring [print version: Guilty pleasures of outdoor living, 4 April 2015, p. G3]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):
- Time was when every smart urban patio was equipped with one of those gas-burning heaters of the type found outside London cafés. In this age of sensitivity to global warming we've come to be wary of them […] , but somehow those strange little chimineas seem to have warmed the hearts of the nation. I've always found them a bit odd looking – like something from The Hobbit – and you do need to position them where they can do their job without endangering life, limb and property.
Anagrams
Asturian
Pronunciation
Noun
chimenea f (plural chimenees)
- chimney (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue)
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish chimenea, from older cheminea (via vowel metathesis), from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta. Compare English chimney.
Pronunciation
Noun
chimenea f (plural chimeneas)
- chimney
- smokestack (of a train or factory)
- funnel (of a ship)
- fireplace, fireside, hearth
- Synonym: hogar
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: chimenea
References
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “chimenea”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 361
Further reading
- “chimenea”, 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