clepsidra
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: clep‧si‧dra
Noun
clepsidra f (plural clepsidras)
- water clock (device for measuring time)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin clepsydra, from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra). More at English clepsydra.
Pronunciation
Noun
clepsidra f (plural clepsidras)
- clepsydra, water clock
- Synonym: reloj de agua
See also
Further reading
- “clepsidra”, 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