pujanza
Spanish
Etymology
From pujar (“to struggle, push”) + -anza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puˈxanθa/ [puˈxãn̟.θa] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /puˈxansa/ [puˈxãn.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -anθa (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ansa (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: pu‧jan‧za
Noun
pujanza f (plural pujanzas)
- strength, might
- 2021 January 2, Claudi Pérez, “Salvador Illa: el triunfo de la sobriedad”, in El País[1]:
- Entre la veintena de fuentes entrevistadas para este perfil sobresalen dos grandes explicaciones para esa aparente contradicción que supone la pujanza de Illa en mitad de la mayor crisis sanitaria en un siglo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- → Portuguese: pujança
Further reading
- “pujanza”, 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