prestidigitación
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Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾestidixitaˈθjon/ [pɾes.t̪i.ð̞i.xi.t̪aˈθjõn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾestidixitaˈsjon/ [pɾes.t̪i.ð̞i.xi.t̪aˈsjõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: pres‧ti‧di‧gi‧ta‧ción
Noun
[edit]prestidigitación f (plural prestidigitaciones)
- prestidigitation, sleight of hand, legerdemain (manual dexterity in the execution of tricks)
- Synonym: escamoteo
- (figuratively) sleight of hand, legerdemain
Further reading
[edit]- “prestidigitación”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014