perífrasis
Asturian
[edit]Noun
[edit]perífrasis f (plural perífrasis)
- periphrasis (use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin periphrasis, from Ancient Greek περίφρασις (períphrasis).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]perífrasis f (plural perífrasis)
- (linguistics, grammar) periphrasis
- En el español hay unas ciento cuarenta perífrasis.
- In Spanish there are about 140 periphrases.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “perífrasis”, 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
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ifɾasis
- Rhymes:Spanish/ifɾasis/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
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