delincuencia
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin dēlinquentia (compare Catalan delinqüència, Portuguese delinquência), from Latin dēlinquēns.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /delinˈkwenθja/ [d̪e.lĩŋˈkwẽn̟.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /delinˈkwensja/ [d̪e.lĩŋˈkwẽn.sja]
- Rhymes: -enθja
- Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: de‧lin‧cuen‧cia
Noun
[edit]delincuencia f (plural delincuencias)
- (crime) crime, delinquency
- Synonym: crimen
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “delincuencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/enθja
- Rhymes:Spanish/enθja/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/ensja
- Rhymes:Spanish/ensja/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Crime