diligencia
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diliˈxenθja/ [d̪i.liˈxẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /diliˈxensja/ [d̪i.liˈxẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: di‧li‧gen‧cia
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin dīligentia.
Noun
diligencia f (plural diligencias)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
diligencia
- inflection of diligenciar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “diligencia”, 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