meretriz
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin meretrīcem.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: me‧re‧triz
Noun[edit]
meretriz f (plural meretrizes)
- hooker, whore, prostitute
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin meretrīcem.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾeˈtɾiθ/ [me.ɾeˈt̪ɾiθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /meɾeˈtɾis/ [me.ɾeˈt̪ɾis]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -iθ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -is
- Syllabification: me‧re‧triz
Noun[edit]
meretriz f (plural meretrices)
- hooker, whore, prostitute
- Synonym: prostituta
- 1885, Leopoldo Alas, chapter 1, in La Regenta, volume 1, published 2006, →ISBN:
- Pero, sin pensarlo, daba una intención lúbrica y cínica a su mirada, como una meretriz de calleja, que anuncia su triste comercio con los ojos, sin que la policía pueda reivindicar los derechos de la moral pública.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading[edit]
- “meretriz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- pt:Prostitution
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/iθ
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- Rhymes:Spanish/is
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- es:Prostitution