utopía

See also: utopia, Utopia, utópia, utopią, and útópía

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Utopia, from New Latin Ūtopia, coined by Sir Thomas More as the name of the fictional state central to the homonymous work Utopia, from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /utoˈpia/ [u.t̪oˈpi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: u‧to‧pí‧a

Noun

utopía f (plural utopías)

1. utopia

   Antonym: distopía

Derived terms

• distopía
• utópico

 

Further reading

• “utopía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16