deficiencia
See also: deficiència and deficiência
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin dēficientia. Compare Catalan deficiència, French déficience, Italian deficienza, Portuguese deficiência.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /defiˈθjenθja/ [d̪e.fiˈθjẽn̟.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /defiˈsjensja/ [d̪e.fiˈsjẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: de‧fi‧cien‧cia
Noun
[edit]deficiencia f (plural deficiencias)
- deficiency [from 1543]
Derived terms
[edit]- inmunodeficiencia f (“immunodeficiency”)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “deficiencia”, 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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