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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desaˈfio/
- Rhymes: -io
- Syllabification: de‧sa‧fí‧o
Etymology 1
Deverbal from desafiar.
Noun
desafío m (plural desafíos)
- challenge
- Synonym: reto
1605, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo I”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte:Llenósele la fantasía de todo aquello que leía en los libros, así de encantamentos como de pendencias, batallas, desafíos, heridas, requiebros, amores, tormentas y disparates imposibles; y asentósele de tal modo en la imaginación que era verdad toda aquella máquina de aquellas soñadas invenciones que leía, que para él no había otra historia más cierta en el mundo.- His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it.
- defiance, provocation
- Synonym: provocación
Etymology 2
Verb
desafío
- first-person singular present indicative of desafiar
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