destierro
Spanish, noun/desˈtjero/
destierro is spelled D-E-S-T-I-E-R-R-O (9 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 26,728th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Destierro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “exile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desterrar. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de desterrar o desterrarse (abandonar la tierra donde uno vivía)”.
What does destierro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineexile
- 2
masculinewilderness
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desterrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de desterrar o desterrarse (abandonar la tierra donde uno vivía). 2. Tipo de pena que un Estado puede imponer, que consiste en expulsar a alguien de un lugar o de un territorio determinado (que normalmente es el territorio hasta donde se extiende la soberanía de quien impone el castigo). 3. Tiempo durante el que se desarrolla el castigo. 4. Lugar o región donde se instala el desterrado.
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 destierro
- destierros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce destierro?
- /desˈtjero/
- [d̪esˈt̪je.ro]
- [d̪esˈt̪jero]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to destierro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is destierro in Spanish?
destierro appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).