menudencia

Spanish

Etymology

From menudo +‎ -encia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /menuˈdenθja/ [me.nuˈð̞ẽn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /menuˈdensja/ [me.nuˈð̞ẽn.sja]
• Rhymes: -enθja
• Rhymes: -ensja
• Syllabification: me‧nu‧den‧cia

Noun

menudencia f (plural menudencias)

1. trifle; worthless thing
2. smallness; tininess
3. minuteness; exactness; meticulousness
4. (in the plural) offal

Descendants

• → Portuguese: minudência

Further reading

• “menudencia”, 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