delincuencia
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin dēlinquentia (compare Catalan delinqüència, Portuguese delinquência), from Latin dēlinquēns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /delinˈkwenθja/ [d̪e.lĩŋˈkwẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /delinˈkwensja/ [d̪e.lĩŋˈkwẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: de‧lin‧cuen‧cia
Noun
delincuencia f (plural delincuencias)
- (crime) crime, delinquency
- Synonym: crimen
Derived terms
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Further reading
- “delincuencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024