predialazo
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From predial + -azo. Literally, “a hit with the property tax”.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾedjaˈlaθo/ [pɾe.ð̞jaˈla.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /pɾedjaˈlaso/ [pɾe.ð̞jaˈla.so]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -aθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -aso
- Syllabification: pre‧dia‧la‧zo
Noun[edit]
predialazo m (plural predialazos)
- (Mexico, Colombia) excessive increase in property tax
- 2010, Carlos Villalba Bustillo, “El predialazo”, in El Universal[1]:
- Produjo hilaridad que el director de dicho instituto, el señor Iván Darío Gómez, viniera a convencer a los cartageneros de que el predialazo confiscatorio con que nos dio el feliz año nuevo se había hecho con rigor técnico.
- It was hilarious that the director of said institute, Mr. Iván Darío Gómez, came to convince the people of Cartagena that the confiscatory predialazo with which he gave us the happy new year had been done with technical rigor.
References[edit]
- ^ “What does the Mexican term "predialazo" refer to?”, in Spanish Language Stack Exchange, 2011 November 22
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