cortafuegos
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Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of corta (“to cut”) + fuegos (“fires”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cortafuegos m (plural cortafuegos)
- firebreak, fire line, firetrail (Australia) (An area cleared of all flammable material in the woods to prevent a fire from spreading across it)
- (architecture) firewall (a fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle)
- Synonyms: muro cortafuegos, muro cortafuego
- (computing, also figurative) firewall
- Synonym: firewall
- 2020 July 9, “Sánchez plantea revisar la inviolabilidad del Rey en la Constitución”, in El País:
- El Gobierno quiere salvaguardar a la Monarquía del escándalo causado por las informaciones sobre las cuentas de Juan Carlos I en paraísos fiscales levantando un cortafuegos entre el rey Felipe VI y su padre y planteando una reforma constitucional que limite la inviolabilidad del jefe del Estado.
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- plural of cortafuego
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Further reading
- “cortafuegos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28