pereza
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin pigritia. Doublet of pigricia, which was a later borrowing.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /peˈɾeθa/ [peˈɾe.θa] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /peˈɾesa/ [peˈɾe.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eθa (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- Rhymes: -esa (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: pe‧re‧za
Noun
[edit]pereza f (plural perezas)
- laziness
- (colloquial) a drag (something tedious)
- (Venezuela) sloth (mammal)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pereza”, 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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