xenismo
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃeˈniz.mu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʃeˈniʒ.mu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃeˈniz.mo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʃɨˈniʒ.mu/
- Hyphenation: xe‧nis‧mo
Noun
xenismo m (plural xenismos)
- (linguistics) unadapted borrowing (retaining the spelling of the source language)
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seˈnismo/ [seˈniz.mo]
- Rhymes: -ismo
- Syllabification: xe‧nis‧mo
Noun
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xenismo m (plural xenismos)
- (countable, linguistics) unadapted borrowing
- Hypernym: extranjerismo
Further reading
- “xenismo”, 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