semejanza
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From semejar + -anza; cf. also Late Latin similāntia. Compare Portuguese semelhança, Galician semellanza, Catalan semblança, French ressemblance (Old French semblance), Italian somiglianza.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /semeˈxanθa/ [se.meˈxãn̟.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /semeˈxansa/ [se.meˈxãn.sa]
- Rhymes: -anθa
- Rhymes: -ansa
- Syllabification: se‧me‧jan‧za
Noun
[edit]semejanza f (plural semejanzas)
- likeness, similarity, resemblance, similitude
- Synonyms: similaridad, semblanza, similitud
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “semejanza”, 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