ensenada

See also: Ensenada and enseñada

Spanish

Etymology

Feminine form of ensenado (“having the form of a sound or inlet”) from en- +‎ seno (“sound, sinus, breast”) from Latin sinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enseˈnada/ [ẽn.seˈna.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: en‧se‧na‧da

Noun

ensenada f (plural ensenadas)

1. cove

Further reading

• “ensenado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024