faccioso

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /faɡˈθjoso/ [faɣ̞ˈθjo.so]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /faɡˈsjoso/ [faɣ̞ˈsjo.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: fac‧cio‧so

Adjective

faccioso (feminine facciosa, masculine plural facciosos, feminine plural facciosas)

1. factious, rebellious
   • 2015 October 18, “Columna”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Significó la consolidación de una manera facciosa de hacer política, una modalidad que permeó al régimen político en su conjunto.

     It meant the consolidation of a factious way of doing politics, a modality that permeated the political regime as a whole

Further reading

• “faccioso”, 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