descanso - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Borrowed from Spanish descanso (“place of rest, as of a funeral procession”).
descanso (plural descansos)
- A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
The highways of the USA are littered with descansos, silent reminders of automobile accidents.
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- Rhymes: -ɐ̃su
- Hyphenation: des‧can‧so
Deverbal from descansar (“to rest”), des- + cansar (“to tire”), from Latin campsāre.
descanso m (plural descansos)
- rest (relief from exertion; state of quiet and recreation)
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descanso m (plural descansos)
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- “descanso”, 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