fracaso

See also: fracasó

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɾaˈkaso/ [fɾɑˈkɑ.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -aso
• Hyphenation: fra‧ca‧so

Noun

fracaso m (plural fracasos)

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Further reading

• “fracaso”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɾaˈkaso/ [fɾaˈka.so]
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: fra‧ca‧so

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian fracasso, from fracassare, from Latin īnfra- + Vulgar Latin *cassāre, from Latin cassus.

Noun

fracaso m (plural fracasos)

1. downfall, ruin, calamity, destruction
2. failure, flop, abortiveness

Derived terms

• fracaso escolar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

fracaso

1. first-person singular present indicative of fracasar

Further reading

• “fracaso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014