peculado

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pecūlātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pekuˈlado/ [pe.kuˈla.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: pe‧cu‧la‧do

Noun

peculado m (plural peculados)

1. embezzlement

Further reading

• “peculado”, 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