Fray Bentos

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Fray Bentos.

Proper noun

Fray Bentos

  1. A city, the capital of Río Negro department, Uruguay.
    • 2003 September 21, Tom Hall, “Sunset in a one-pie town”, in The Observer‎[1], →ISSN:
      The big draw of the town was the disused meat factory on the shore of the broad Rio Uruguay. Fray Bentos (named after a Jesuit priest) rose and fell with the fortunes of the meat company, Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay.

Spanish

Etymology

From fray (“friar”) + Bentos, Friar Benedict, a reclusive priest.

Proper noun

Fray Bentos ?

  1. Fray Bentos (a city, the capital of Río Negro department, Uruguay)

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