bañera

/baˈɲeɾa/ · B1 · noun · f

bathtub

bañera — bathtub

🛁 baño (bath) + -era (holder, as in cafetera) = the thing that holds the bath

The suffix -era marks a container in Spanish: cafetera holds coffee, papelera holds paper. A bañera holds the baño. The other meanings follow the same idea of a tub-shaped hollow: a cockpit, or the bed of a dump truck.

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