noventayochismo

Spanish

FWOTD – 23 November 2017

Etymology

From noventa y ocho (“ninety-eight, [18]98”) +‎ -ismo (“-ism”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nobentaʝoˈt͡ʃismo/ [no.β̞ẽn̪.t̪a.ʝoˈt͡ʃiz.mo]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /nobentaʝoˈt͡ʃismo/ [no.β̞ẽn̪.t̪a.ʝoˈt͡ʃiz.mo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /nobentaʃoˈt͡ʃismo/ [no.β̞ẽn̪.t̪a.ʃoˈt͡ʃiz.mo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /nobentaʒoˈt͡ʃismo/ [no.β̞ẽn̪.t̪a.ʒoˈt͡ʃiz.mo]

• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: no‧ven‧ta‧yo‧chis‧mo

Noun

noventayochismo m (uncountable)

1. (literature) the style of the Generation of '98 (a Spanish literary group at the end of the 19th century)

Related terms

• noventayochista

 

Further reading

• “noventayochismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16