violencia
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin violentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bjoˈlenθja/ [bjoˈlẽn̟.θja]
- Rhymes: -enθja
- Syllabification: vio‧len‧cia
Noun
violencia f (plural violencies)
Related terms
Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin violentia.
Noun
violencia f (plural violencias)
Related terms
Further reading
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “violencia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “violencia” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “violencia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “violencia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Noun
violencia f (plural violencias)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of violência.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin violentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bjoˈlenθja/ [bjoˈlẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /bjoˈlensja/ [bjoˈlẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: vio‧len‧cia
Noun
violencia f (plural violencias)
- violence
- act of violence
- 2007, United Nations' Division for the Advancement of Women, Poner fin a la violencia contra la mujer: De las palabras a los hechos - estudio del secretario general:
- Es difícil hacer estimaciones de la prevalencia de la violencia sexual infligida fuera de la pareja, porque en numerosas sociedades la violencia sexual sigue siendo fuente de profunda vergüenza para las mujeres y frecuentemente para sus familias.
- It is difficult to make estimations about the prevalence of sexual violence inflicted outside of a couple, because in numerous societies sexual violence continues to be a source of profound shame for women and frequently for their families.
Hyponyms
- violencia contra la mujer (“violence against women”)
- violencia de género
- violencia doméstica
- violencia estructural (“structural violence”) (sociology)
- violencia institucional (“institutional violence”) (sociology)
- violencia intrafamiliar
Derived terms
- antiviolencia
- no violencia (“nonviolence”) (n.)
Related terms
Further reading
- “violencia”, 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