sabelotodo
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of sabe (“to know”) + lo (“it”) + todo (“all”), literally “know it all”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /sabeloˈtodo/ [sa.β̞e.loˈt̪o.ð̞o]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -odo
- Syllabification: sa‧be‧lo‧to‧do
Noun
[edit]sabelotodo m or f by sense (plural sabelotodos)
- (familiar) know-it-all
- Synonym: sabiondo
- 2020 September 23, “Venganza, enredos y trapos sucios en Saint-Germain-des-Près”, in El País[1]:
- A Entoven padre lo retrata como a un ingenuo que se cuidó poco de la educación del hijo y, al mismo tiempo, lo consideraba su “obra maestra”: un repelente sabelotodo, un niño prodigio de Saint-Germain-des-Près, el barrio del poder intelectual parisino.
- He portrays Entoven Sr. as a naive man who took little care of his son's education and, at the same time, considered him his “master work”: a repulsive know-it-all, a child prodigy from Saint-Germain-des-Près, the neighborhood of Parisian intellectual power.
Further reading
[edit]- “sabelotodo”, 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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