insuficiencia
See also: insuficiência
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin īnsufficientia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /insufiˈθjenθja/ [ĩn.su.fiˈθjẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /insufiˈsjensja/ [ĩn.su.fiˈsjẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: in‧su‧fi‧cien‧cia
Noun
insuficiencia f (plural insuficiencias)
- deficiency, lack
- (medicine) failure (of an organ)
Related terms
Further reading
- “insuficiencia”, 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