acefalia
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See also: acefalią
Italian
Noun
acefalia f (plural acefalie)
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos).[1] By surface analysis, a- + -cefalia. First attested in 1962.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
acefalia f
Declension
Declension of acefalia
Derived terms
adjective
Related terms
noun
- (obsolete) acefal
References
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “acefalia”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ acefalia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Further reading
- acefalia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧ce‧fa‧li‧a
Noun
acefalia f (uncountable)
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθeˈfalja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aseˈfalja/
- Rhymes: -alja
- Syllabification: a‧ce‧fa‧lia
Noun
acefalia f (plural acefalias)
Further reading
- “acefalia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10