deprecación
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēprecātiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /depɾekaˈθjon/ [d̪e.pɾe.kaˈθjõn] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /depɾekaˈsjon/ [d̪e.pɾe.kaˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: de‧pre‧ca‧ción
Noun
deprecación f (plural deprecaciones)
- (literary) imploration, supplication
- (rhetoric) prayer
Related terms
Further reading
- “deprecación”, 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