esqueleto

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, to dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skele- (“to parch, to wither”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -etu Hyphenation: es‧que‧le‧to === Noun === esqueleto m (plural esqueletos) (anatomy) skeleton (bones of an organism) Synonyms: ossamenta, ossatura (fiction) skeleton (undead) (figuratively, derogatory) a very thin person Synonyms: chupado, cadáver, seco, anoréxico Antonyms: gordo, baleia, rolha de poço, hipopótamo, obeso frame; framework Synonyms: estrutura, armação ==== Hyponyms ==== (bones of an organism): endoesqueleto, exoesqueleto ==== Meronyms ==== (bones of an organism): osso ==== Derived terms ==== homem-esqueleto m citoesqueleto m dermatoesqueleto m esquelético exoesqueleto m ==== Related terms ==== esquelético skeleton === Further reading === “esqueleto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “esqueleto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /eskeˈleto/ [es.keˈle.t̪o] Rhymes: -eto Syllabification: es‧que‧le‧to === Noun === esqueleto m (plural esqueletos) (anatomy) skeleton Synonyms: osamenta, (obsolete) osambre (structure) frame (structural elements of a constructed object) Synonym: armazón ==== Meronyms ==== hueso cartílago ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “esqueleto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025