sex-appeal

See also: sexappeal, Sexappeal, and sex appeal

English

Noun

sex-appeal (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sex appeal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sex appeal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛk.sa.pil/

Noun

sex-appeal m (uncountable)

1. sex appeal

Further reading

• “sex-appeal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sex appeal.

Noun

sex-appeal n (uncountable)

1. sex appeal

Declension

declension of sex-appeal (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sex-appeal	sex-appealul
genitive/dative	(unui) sex-appeal	sex-appealului
vocative	sex-appealule

Spanish

Alternative forms

• sexappeal

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sex appeal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌseɡs aˈpil/ [ˌseɣ̞s aˈpil]

Noun

sex-appeal m (uncountable)

1. sex appeal

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “sex-appeal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28