ciencia
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Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish ciencia, compare native cencia.
Pronunciation
Noun
ciencia f (plural ciencies)
- Alternative form of cencia
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin scientia.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cien‧cia
Noun
ciencia f (plural ciencias)
Related terms
Further reading
- “ciencia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish çiençia, borrowed from Latin scientia, from sciēns + -ia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθjenθja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsjensja/
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -enθja
- Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: cien‧cia
Noun
ciencia f (plural ciencias)
- science
- erudition, knowledge
- El árbol de la ciencia. ― The tree of knowledge.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: siyensiya
Further reading
- “ciencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28