sigilosamente
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /sixiˌlosaˈmente/ [si.xiˌlo.saˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: si‧gi‧lo‧sa‧men‧te
Adverb
[edit]sigilosamente
- sneakily, secretively, discreetly
- Synonym: discretamente
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 11:
- […] pudo comprobar que de casa de la familia enemiga salía todas las noches una perra, cual entraba sigilosamentte en la habitación de la enfermera por una ventanilla que quedaba abierta.
- […] was able to prove that from the house of the enemy family every night left a dog, which stealthily entered the residence of the sick woman by a small window she had left open.
Further reading
[edit]- “sigilosamente”, 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