mordaza
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *mordacia, from Latin mordax. Compare Portuguese mordaça, French mordache, Italian mordacchia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /moɾˈdaθa/ [moɾˈð̞a.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /moɾˈdasa/ [moɾˈð̞a.sa]
- Rhymes: -aθa
- Rhymes: -asa
- Syllabification: mor‧da‧za
Noun
[edit]mordaza f (plural mordazas)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mordaza”, 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