mayorazgo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /maʝoˈɾaθɡo/ [ma.ʝoˈɾaθ̬.ɣ̞o]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /maʝoˈɾasɡo/ [ma.ʝoˈɾaz.ɣ̞o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America, Philippines) /maʝoˈɾasɡo/ [ma.ʝoˈɾaz.ɣ̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /maʃoˈɾasɡo/ [ma.ʃoˈɾaz.ɣ̞o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /maʒoˈɾasɡo/ [ma.ʒoˈɾaz.ɣ̞o]

• Rhymes: -aθɡo
• Rhymes: -asɡo
• Syllabification: ma‧yo‧raz‧go

Noun

mayorazgo m (plural mayorazgos)

1. primogeniture
2. firstborn
3. estate; inheritance

Related terms

• mayor

 

Further reading

• “mayorazgo”, 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