menudencia
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /menuˈdenθja/ [me.nuˈð̞ẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /menuˈdensja/ [me.nuˈð̞ẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: me‧nu‧den‧cia
Noun
menudencia f (plural menudencias)
- trifle; worthless thing
- smallness; tininess
- minuteness; exactness; meticulousness
- (in the plural) offal
Descendants
- → Portuguese: minudência
Further reading
- “menudencia”, 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