repechaje
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue from water”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /repeˈt͡ʃaxe/ [re.peˈt͡ʃa.xe]
- Rhymes: -axe
- Syllabification: re‧pe‧cha‧je
Noun
repechaje m (plural repechajes)
- (sports, soccer, Latin America) repechage
- Synonym: (Argentina, Spain) repesca
Further reading
- “repechaje”, 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