seseo
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: seseó
Galician[edit]
Noun[edit]
seseo m (plural seseos)
- an accent in Spanish and Galician that pronounces z, and c before e or i, as /s/ rather than /θ/
Usage notes[edit]
- Someone who has a seseo accent would pronounce the words caza, meaning 'hunt' or he or she hunts, and casa, meaning house, with a [s] sound. The words would sound identical. This accent can be typically found in the north-central of Spain and throughout the Americas.
Related terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
seseo m (plural seseos)
- an accent in Spanish and Galician that pronounces z, and c before e or i, as /s/ rather than /θ/
- Coordinate term: ceceo
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
seseo
Further reading[edit]
- “seseo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- seseo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Categories:
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- gl:Phonology
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/eo
- Rhymes:Spanish/eo/3 syllables
- Spanish deverbals
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- es:Phonology