competencia
See also: competència and competência
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin competentia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kompeˈtenθja/ [kõm.peˈt̪ẽn̟.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /kompeˈtensja/ [kõm.peˈt̪ẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: com‧pe‧ten‧cia
Noun
[edit]competencia f (plural competencias)
- competence, expertise
- Synonym: pericia
- (law) jurisdiction, purview
- Synonym: jurisdicción
- (Latin America) competition
- Synonyms: concurso, competición
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “competencia”, 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 borrowed from Late Latin
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- Spanish 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/enθja
- Rhymes:Spanish/enθja/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/ensja
- Rhymes:Spanish/ensja/4 syllables
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- Spanish countable nouns
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