vergüenza
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Spanish berguença, from Latin verēcundia, from verēcundus (“feeling shame”), from vereor (“to respect, revere, fear”). Doublet of the rare borrowing verecundia.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /beɾˈɡwenθa/ [beɾˈɣ̞wẽn̟.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /beɾˈɡwensa/ [beɾˈɣ̞wẽn.sa]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -enθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensa
- Syllabification: ver‧güen‧za
Noun[edit]
vergüenza f (plural vergüenzas)
- shame
- Synonym: acholo
- embarrassment
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Further reading[edit]
- “vergüenza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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