afroporteño

Spanish

Etymology

From afro- +‎ porteño (“someone from Buenos Aires”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌafɾopoɾˈteɲo/ [ˌa.fɾo.poɾˈt̪e.ɲo]
  • Rhymes: -eɲo
  • Syllabification: a‧fro‧por‧te‧ño

Adjective

afroporteño (feminine afroporteña, masculine plural afroporteños, feminine plural afroporteñas)

  1. from Buenos Aires descended from Africa

Noun

afroporteño m (plural afroporteños, feminine afroporteña, feminine plural afroporteñas)

  1. Afro-Buenos Airesian

Further reading

  • “afroporteño”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021
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