distancia

See also: distanciá, distancià, distància, and distância

Catalan

Verb

distancia

1. inflection of distanciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: distancias, distanciât

Verb

distancia

1. third-person singular past historic of distancier

Galician

Alternative forms

• distância (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Latin distantia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /disˈtanθja/ [d̪is̺ˈt̪an̪.θjɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /disˈtanθja/ [d̪is̺ˈt̪an̪.θjɐ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /disˈtansja/ [d̪isˈt̪an.sjɐ]

 

• Rhymes: -anθja

• Rhymes: -anθja
• Rhymes: -ansja

• Hyphenation: dis‧tan‧cia

Noun

distancia f (plural distancias)

1. distance

Related terms

• distante

Further reading

• “distancia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Leonese

Etymology

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Noun

distancia f (plural distancias)

1. distance

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

distancia f (plural distancias)

1. Obsolete spelling of distância.

Etymology 2

Verb

distancia

1. inflection of distanciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /disˈtanθja/ [d̪isˈt̪ãn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /disˈtansja/ [d̪isˈt̪ãn.sja]
• Rhymes: -anθja
• Rhymes: -ansja
• Syllabification: dis‧tan‧cia

Etymology 1

From Latin distantia.

Noun

distancia f (plural distancias)

1. distance

   No podrían acertar a un elefante a esta distancia.

   They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.

Derived terms

• a distancia
• distancia de frenado
• distancia de seguridad
• distancia euclidiana
• guardar las distancias
• mando a distancia
• punto de distancia

 

Related terms

• distanciar
• distante
• distar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

distancia

1. inflection of distanciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “distancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28