vergüenza

Inherited from Old Spanish berguença, from Latin verēcundia, from verēcundus (“feeling shame”), from vereor (“to respect, revere, fear”). Doublet of the rare borrowing verecundia.

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈɡwenθa/ [beɾˈɣ̞wẽn̟.θa] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /beɾˈɡwensa/ [beɾˈɣ̞wẽn.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -enθa (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -ensa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ver‧güen‧za

vergüenza f (plural vergüenzas)

1. shame

   Synonyms: pudor, acholo

2. embarrassment

   Synonyms: (Latin America) pena, (Peru) palta

• “vergüenza”, 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