Today's
WOTD is: "acceso" = access
1.
In Spanish, “acceso”*
is a masculine noun of Latin origin which means access, as in:
- Prohibido el acceso al personal no autorizado (no access to unauthorised personnel);
- Está cerrada la única via de acceso a la cumbre (the only summit access road is closed);
- Esa información está clasificada, nosotros no tenemos acceso a ella (that information is classified, we don't have access to it);
*NB please note that the
Spanish and English words have slightly different spellings.
2. In Spanish, the word
“acceso” may also be used to refer to a fit, a
bout or an attack, as in:
- Cometió esa locura en un acceso de ira (he/ she did that crazy thing in a fit of rage);
- Un acceso de tos me matuvo despierto casi toda la noche (a bout of coughing kept me awake almost all night);
3. Related Spanish words are
“accesible”* and “inaccesible” which are
describing words/ adjectives meaning accessible and
inaccessible respectively.
- Queremos un transporte público más accesible (we want a more accessible public transport);
*NB please note that the
Spanish and English words have slightly different spellings.
4.
Some expressions with the word “acceso”
are:
- Acceso a la red (network access);
- Acceso libre (free/ unrestricted access);
- La piscina es de acceso libre (use of the swimming pool is free/ unrestricted);
- Adaptación de acceso (access accommodation/ adaptation for accessibility);
- Las rampas de acceso son ejemplos de adaptaciones de acceso (access ramps are examples of adaptations for accessibility);
- Autorización de acceso (access authorisation);
- Clave the acceso (access key/ user password);
- Dar acceso a algo (to give access to something);
- Nos han dado acceso a la sala vip (we have been given access to the VIP lounge);
- De difícil acceso (hard to reach/ difficult to access);
- Una cumbre de difícil acceso (a hard to reach summit);
- Permitir el acceso (to grant/ allow access);
- Portal de acceso (access portal/ web access portal);
- Pruebas de acceso (admission tests/ exams);
- Punto de acceso (access point);
- Rampa de acceso (access ramp);
- Las rampas de acceso son ejemplos de adaptaciones de acceso (access ramps are examples of adaptations for accessibility);
- Restricción de acceso (access restriction/ limitation);
- Restringir el acceso (to restrict/ limit access);
- Tener acceso a algo (to have access to something);
- Teemos acceso a la sala vip (we have access to the VIP lounge);
- Zona de acceso (access area/ region)'
- Zona de difícil acceso (hard to reach area/ region);
Love-Spanish.com
loves the word "acceso" in the YouTube clip: MANÁ -Ojala Pudiera Borrarte ('Drama y Luz" Walmart Acceso Total)
*NB
'Click' on the speaker icon next to the word “acceso”
in the link to hear the word pronounced.
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