desinencia
Letters
10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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desinencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Morfema dependiente que se añade a la raíz de una palabra en las lenguas sintéticas para indicar diversos aspectos gramaticales, como el género, el número, la persona, el caso, el tiempo o el modo.... Pronounced [d̪esiˈnẽnsja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desinencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪esiˈnẽnsja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for desinencia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esiˈnẽnsja]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Morfema dependiente que se añade a la raíz de una palabra en las lenguas sintéticas para indicar diversos aspectos gramaticales, como el género, el número, la persona, el caso, el tiempo o el modo....".
No misspelling variants are generated for desinencia in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is desinencia, spelled D-E-S-I-N-E-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Morfema dependiente que se añade a la raíz de una palabra en las lenguas sintéticas para indicar diversos aspectos gramaticales, como el género, el número, la persona, el caso, el tiempo o el modo. No es necesariamente un afijo, aunque en las lenguas romances así sea habitualmente y de ello derive etimológicamente su nombre.
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