vueselencia
Spanish
Etymology
Shortened form of vuestra excelencia
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bweseˈlenθja/ [bwe.seˈlẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /bweseˈlensja/ [bwe.seˈlẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: vue‧se‧len‧cia
Pronoun
vueselencia
- (obsolete, formal) Your Excellency
Usage notes
- Like the modern equivalent usted and the English equivalent your grace, the pronoun vueselencia is formal and semantically second person, but grammatically third person.