robot

/roˈbot/ · B1 · noun · m

automaton

robot — automaton

🤖 Same word as English robot, stress on the end: ro-BOT

From Czech robota, forced labour, coined in Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R. Spanish keeps the spelling but stresses the last syllable, and it is masculine: el robot, los robots.

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