semejanza
Spanish
Etymology
From semejar + -anza; cf. also Late Latin similāntia. Compare Portuguese semelhança, Galician semellanza, Catalan semblança, French ressemblance (Old French semblance), Italian somiglianza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /semeˈxanθa/ [se.meˈxãn̟.θa] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /semeˈxansa/ [se.meˈxãn.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -anθa (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ansa (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: se‧me‧jan‧za
Noun
semejanza f (plural semejanzas)
- likeness, similarity, resemblance, similitude
- Synonyms: similaridad, semblanza, similitud
Related terms
Further reading
- “semejanza”, 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