embellecimiento
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From embellecer + -miento.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /embeʝesiˈmjento/ [ẽm.be.ʝe.siˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /embeʎesiˈmjento/ [ẽm.be.ʎe.siˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /embeʃesiˈmjento/ [ẽm.be.ʃe.siˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /embeʒesiˈmjento/ [ẽm.be.ʒe.siˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: em‧be‧lle‧ci‧mien‧to
Noun
[edit]embellecimiento m (plural embellecimientos)
- beautifying, prettifying, gussying up, beautification
- 2015 July 20, “El público recupera el Teatro de la Comedia”, in El País[1]:
- También es digna de destacarse la obra de embellecimiento de la fachada llevada a cabo en 1897.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “embellecimiento”, 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