aflicción
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish aflicion~affliccion, borrowed from Latin afflīctiōnem. The modern word could also have been reborrowed from Latin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /afliɡˈθjon/ [a.fliɣ̞ˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /afliɡˈsjon/ [a.fliɣ̞ˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: a‧flic‧ción
Noun
[edit]aflicción f (plural aflicciones)
- affliction
- sorrow
- Synonyms: dolor, pesadumbre
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “aflicción”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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- Spanish terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/on
- Rhymes:Spanish/on/3 syllables
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