pasilidad

Cebuano

Etymology

From English facility, from Middle French facilité, from Latin facilitās. Compare Spanish facilidad (“ease”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pa‧si‧li‧dad
• IPA^(key): /pasiliˈdad/ [pa.s̪i.l̪iˈd̪ad̪]

Noun

pasilidád (Badlit spelling ᜉᜐᜒᜎᜒᜇᜇ᜔)

1. facility (the physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.)

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish facilidad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasiliˈdad/ [pa.si.l̪iˈd̪ad̪]
• Hyphenation: pa‧si‧li‧dad

Noun

pasilidád (Basahan spelling ᜉᜐᜒᜎᜒᜇᜇ᜔)

1. facility (a required institution)
2. (uncommon) ease, easiness

   Antonym: dipikultad

Related terms

• pasil

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin facilis

Latin -tās

Latin facilitātemlbor.

Spanish facilidadbor.

Tagalog pasilidad

Borrowed from Spanish facilidad, a learned borrowing from Latin facilitātem, from facilis + -tās. The senses “physical means or contrivance for doing something” and “building or campus” are both semantic loans from English facility. Doublet of fakulti and pakultad.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pasiliˈdad/ [pɐ.sɪ.lɪˈd̪ad̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: pa‧si‧li‧dad

Noun

pasilidád (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜐᜒᜎᜒᜇᜇ᜔)

1. facility (physical means or contrivance for doing something)

   Synonyms: kagamitan, kasangkapan

2. facility (building or campus)

   pasilidad pang-industriya ― industrial facility

3. facility (fact of being easy)

   Synonyms: dali, gaan, kadalian, kaluwagan, kakayahan

4. (dated) opportunity; chance

   Synonyms: pagkakataon, oportunidad, tsansa, okasyon

Derived terms

• pasilidad ng kuwarantena

Further reading

• “pasilidad”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 273