villanía

Spanish

Etymology

From villano +‎ -ía.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /biʝaˈnia/ [bi.ʝaˈni.a] (most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /biʎaˈnia/ [bi.ʎaˈni.a] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /biʃaˈnia/ [bi.ʃaˈni.a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /biʒaˈnia/ [bi.ʒaˈni.a] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Rhymes: -ia
Syllabification: vi‧lla‧ní‧a

Noun

villanía f (plural villanías)

villainy
- 2017 September, “Sociedad vs. impunidad”, in Frontera.info‎^[1]:
  Ustedes creen -prosiguió al tiempo que agitaba con su dedo la parte acusada- que con esta partecita pudo este pobre niño haber cometido la villanía que se le imputa?
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

“villanía”, 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