Masculine

sótano

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(masculine) cellar
(masculine) basement
(Mexico, Northern, masculine) pit

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Hyphenated as

só‧ta‧no

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsotano/

Inherited from Old Spanish

Inherited from Latin

Cognate with Portuguese

Cognate with Italian

In summary

From alteration of Old Spanish sótalo, from Vulgar Latin *subtulum, from Latin subtus. Compare Portuguese sótão (“attic”). Less likely from a Vulgar Latin *subtanus (whence Italian sottano), itself also a derivative of subtus (“below”).

basement apartment

sotano

piwnica

suterena

υπόγειο

Souterrain

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