Polyglot Dictionary

fontanería

/fontaneˈɾia/

la noun C1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. plumbing

    • La fontanería es antigua.

      The plumbing is old.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

plomería

fontanería and plomería are close synonyms for "plumbing," a regional variant — fontanería more Spain, plomería more Latin America.

Similar in other languages

French

plomberie

plomberie is the French word for the same thing — both mean "plumbing."

Portuguese

encanamento

encanamento is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "plumbing."

Practice

1 What does fontanería mean?

2 Fill the gap: La ___ es antigua.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches fontanería?

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