Asunción

See also: asunción and Asuncion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Asunción, from asunción (“Assumption”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌsuːnsiˈɒn/, /əˌsuːnsiˈəʊn/, /ˌæsʊnˈsjɒn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: A‧sun‧sion

Proper noun

Asunción

2. The capital and largest city of Paraguay.
3. (metonymic) The Paraguayan government.

Translations

capital of Paraguay

• Arabic: أَسُونْسِيُون f (ʔasunsiyōn), أَسُنِسُون f (ʔasunisūn)
• Asturian: Asunción (ast)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏑᏏᏲᏅ (asusiyonv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞松森 / 亚松森 (zh) (Yàsōngsēn)

• Czech: Asunción (cs) m
• Danish: Asunción n
• Esperanto: Asunciono (eo)
• French: Asunción (fr) f
• German: Asunción (de) n
• Greek: Ασουνσιόν (el) f (Asounsión)
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} Paraguay

• Hebrew: אָסוּנְסְיוֹן f (asunsion)
• Hindi: असुंसियोन (asunsiyon)
• Italian: Asunción f, Assunzione (it) f
• Japanese: アスンシオン (ja) (Asunshion)
• Korean: 아순시온 (Asunsion)
• Latvian: Asunsjona
• Macedonian: Асунсио́н m (Asunsión)
• Maltese: Asunzjon
• Portuguese: Assunção (pt) f
• Romanian: Asunción (ro)
• Russian: Асунсьо́н (ru) m (Asunsʹón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Асунсион m

  Latin: Asunsion m

• Spanish: Asunción (es) f
• Ukrainian: Асунсьйо́н m (Asunsʹjón)
• Vietnamese: A-xun-xi-ôn

Anagrams

• incanous

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈasunsɪjon]

Proper noun

Asunción m inan (relational adjective asunciónský)

1. Asunción (the capital city of Paraguay)

Declension

Declension of Asunción (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Asunción
genitive	Asunciónu
dative	Asunciónu
accusative	Asunción
vocative	Asuncióne
locative	Asunciónu
instrumental	Asunciónem

Further reading

• “Asunción”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asunsiɔːn/, [ˈasunsiɔːn], [ˈasun̠siɔːn]
• Rhymes: -iɔːn
• Hyphenation: A‧sun‧ci‧ón

Proper noun

Asunción m inan (genitive singular Asuncióna or Asunciónu)

1. Asunción (the capital of Paraguay)

References

• “Asunción”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From asunción (“assumption (of Mary to heaven)”), shortened from María (de la) Asunción, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asunˈθjon/ [a.sũn̟ˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /asunˈsjon/ [a.sũnˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: A‧sun‧ción

Proper noun

Asunción f

1. a female given name from Latin
2. any of a number of places, including Asunción (the capital city of Paraguay)

Derived terms

• asunceno
• asunceño

Descendants

• → Portuguese: Assunção (calque)