dilema

Borrowed from Latin dilēmma, from Ancient Greek δίλημμα (dílēmma).

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• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

dilema m (plural dilemes)

1. dilemma

• “dilema” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dilema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “dilema” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dilema” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: di‧le‧ma

dilema n

1. dilemma

• trilema

• Rhymes: -emɐ

dilema m (plural dilemas)

1. dilemma (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
2. (loosely) dilemma (difficult circumstance)
3. (logic) dilemma

• IPA^(key): /dilěːma/
• Hyphenation: di‧le‧ma

diléma f (Cyrillic spelling диле́ма)

1. dilemma

From Latin dilēmma, from Ancient Greek δίλημμα (dílēmma), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).

• IPA^(key): /diˈlema/
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: di‧le‧ma

dilema m (plural dilemas)

1. dilemma, quandary

   Synonym: disyuntiva

• “dilema”, 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