persignar
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9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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persignar is aSpanishverb. It means: Trazar una cruz (al tocar con los dedos de la mano derecha sucesivamente la frente, el pecho y cada hombro) sobre algo o alguien como oración o invocación al dios de los cristianos. Pronounced [peɾsiɣ̞ˈnaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persignar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peɾsiɣ̞ˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for persignar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾsiɣ̞ˈnaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for persignar 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 persignar, spelled P-E-R-S-I-G-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trazar una cruz (al tocar con los dedos de la mano derecha sucesivamente la frente, el pecho y cada hombro) sobre algo o alguien como oración o invocación al dios de los cristianos.
- 2Hacer la señal de la cruz e invocar al mismo tiempo a las tres personas de la Santísima Trinidad (el Padre al tocar la frente, el Hijo al tocar el pecho, y el Espíritu Santo al tocar los hombros).
- 3Formar una cruz con los dedos índice y pulgar de la mano derecha y luego, con el pulgar, trazar tres cruces sucesivas, una en la frente, otra en la boca y otra en el pecho, pidiendo la protección del dios de los cristianos.
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