seseo

See also: seseó

Galician

Noun

seseo m (plural seseos)

1. an accent in Spanish and Galician that pronounces z, and c before e or i, as /s/ rather than /θ/

Usage notes

• Someone who has a seseo accent would pronounce the words caza, meaning 'hunt' or he or she hunts, and casa, meaning house, with a [s] sound. The words would sound identical. This accent can be typically found in the north-central of Spain and throughout the Americas.

Related terms

• ceceo
• seseante
• sesear

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈseo/ [seˈse.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: se‧se‧o

Etymology 1

Deverbal from sesear.

Noun

seseo m (plural seseos)

1. an accent in Spanish and Galician that pronounces z, and c before e or i, as /s/ rather than /θ/

   Coordinate terms: ceceo, seceo, ceseo

Related terms

• ceceo
• ceseo
• seceo
• seseante

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

seseo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sesear

Further reading

• “seseo”, 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
• seseo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es