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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin circumloquium, from circumloquor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θiɾkunˈlokjo/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siɾkunˈlokjo/
- Rhymes: -okjo
- Syllabification: cir‧cun‧lo‧quio
Noun
circunloquio m (plural circunloquios)
- circumlocution
- Synonym: circunlocución
1863, José Pastor de la Roca, La corona de fuego o los subterráneos de las torres de Altamira:[…] aquella interminable charla de circunloquios y pleonasmos ensartados prácticamente por los hablistas de profesión y por los embaucadores de oficio.- that endless chat full of circumlocutions and pleonasms woven practically by smooth talkers and professional tricksters.
2015 July 6, “Nueva alegoría de la liberación de Chile”, in El País:Pero este hombre sombrío que camina por la cancha como torturado por un circunloquio que pronuncia en voz baja, para sí mismo, es tan argentino como los inescrutables Messi, Bielsa o San Martín.- But this sullen man walking around the court like a man tortured by a telling himself a softly-spoken circumlocution is just as Argentinian as the inscrutable Messis, Bielsas or San Martíns
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