truculencia

See also: truculência

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin truculentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /tɾukuˈlenθja/ [t̪ɾu.kuˈlẽn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /tɾukuˈlensja/ [t̪ɾu.kuˈlẽn.sja]
• Rhymes: -enθja
• Rhymes: -ensja
• Syllabification: tru‧cu‧len‧cia

Noun

truculencia f (plural truculencias)

1. savagery, brutality
   • 2022 April 23, Carlos Boyero, “Ultracuerpos”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pagas por ver series clónicas, producto de fórmulas despreciables, temáticas repetitivas, vacío y truculencia.

     You pay to watch cloned series, a product of despicable formulas, repetitive themes, emptiness and truculence.

Further reading

• “truculencia”, 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