different between cenote vs grotto

English

Etymology

From Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya ts?onot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??no?te?/
• IPA^(key): /s??no?ti?/

Noun

cenote (plural cenotes)

1. A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.

Translations

Anagrams

• octene

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya ts?onot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se??no?.t?/
• Hyphenation: cenote
• Rhymes: -o?t?

Noun

cenote m (plural cenotes)

1. cenote

Italian

Etymology

From Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya ts?onot.

Noun

cenote m (invariable)

1. cenote

Spanish

Etymology

From Yucatec Maya ts?onot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?e?note/, [?e?no.t?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /se?note/, [se?no.t?e]
• Rhymes: -ote

Noun

cenote m (plural cenotes)

1. cenote

Descendants

• Dutch: cenote
• English: cenote
• French: cénote
• Italian: cenote

Further reading

• “cenote” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya ts?onot.

Noun

cenote c

1. cenote

Declension

English

Etymology

From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????t.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.to?/
• Rhymes: -?t??

Noun

grotto (plural grottos or grottoes)

1. A small cave.
2. An artificial cavern-like retreat.
3. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
4. A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
   • 1987, National Speleological Society, NSS News, vol. 45-46, p.331:

     An earlier attempt to organize a grotto in the Indiana, PA, area in the mid-1970s failed to succeed, but from it developed the informal Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association.
5. (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.

Derived terms

• grot
• Santa's grotto

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