deficiencia
See also: deficiència and deficiência
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin dēficientia. Compare Catalan deficiència, French déficience, Italian deficienza, Portuguese deficiência.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /defiˈθjenθja/ [d̪e.fiˈθjẽn̟.θja] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /defiˈsjensja/ [d̪e.fiˈsjẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: de‧fi‧cien‧cia
Noun
deficiencia f (plural deficiencias)
Derived terms
- inmunodeficiencia f (“immunodeficiency”)
Related terms
Further reading
- “deficiencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025