culteranismo
Spanish, noun/kulteɾaˈnismo/
culteranismo is spelled C-U-L-T-E-R-A-N-I-S-M-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Spanish, the 169,030th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Culteranismo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “culteranismo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Estilo y escuela literarios que se desarrollaron en España y sus territorios americanos durante los siglos…”.
What does culteranismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineculteranismo
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Estilo y escuela literarios que se desarrollaron en España y sus territorios americanos durante los siglos XVI y XVII, que se caracterizó por su forma extremadamente compleja, así como por sus alusiones eruditas y cultismos o términos raros. Su principal exponente fue Luis de Góngora y Argote.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of culteranismo
- culteranismos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce culteranismo?
- /kulteɾaˈnismo/
- [kul̪.t̪e.ɾaˈniz.mo]
- [kul̪t̪eɾaˈnismo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is culteranismo in Spanish?
culteranismo appears about once in every 21 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).