elegancia
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See also: elegância
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ēlegantia.
Pronunciation
Noun
elegancia f (plural elegancias)
Related terms
Further reading
- “elegancia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēlegantia (“elegance”),[1] from ēligere (“to choose”). With -ancia ending.
Pronunciation
Noun
elegancia (usually uncountable, plural eleganciák)
- elegance
- Synonyms: finomság, választékosság
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | elegancia | eleganciák |
| accusative | eleganciát | eleganciákat |
| dative | eleganciának | eleganciáknak |
| instrumental | eleganciával | eleganciákkal |
| causal-final | eleganciáért | eleganciákért |
| translative | eleganciává | eleganciákká |
| terminative | eleganciáig | eleganciákig |
| essive-formal | eleganciaként | eleganciákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | eleganciában | eleganciákban |
| superessive | elegancián | eleganciákon |
| adessive | eleganciánál | eleganciáknál |
| illative | eleganciába | eleganciákba |
| sublative | eleganciára | eleganciákra |
| allative | eleganciához | eleganciákhoz |
| elative | eleganciából | eleganciákból |
| delative | eleganciáról | eleganciákról |
| ablative | eleganciától | eleganciáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
eleganciáé | eleganciáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
eleganciáéi | eleganciákéi |
| Possessive forms of elegancia | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | eleganciám | eleganciáim |
| 2nd person sing. | eleganciád | eleganciáid |
| 3rd person sing. | eleganciája | eleganciái |
| 1st person plural | eleganciánk | eleganciáink |
| 2nd person plural | eleganciátok | eleganciáitok |
| 3rd person plural | eleganciájuk | eleganciáik |
Related terms
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
- elegancia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- elegancia in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēlegantia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /eleˈɡanθja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /eleˈɡansja/
- Rhymes: -anθja
- Rhymes: -ansja
- Syllabification: e‧le‧gan‧cia
Noun
elegancia f (plural elegancias)
- elegance
- smartness, stylishness
- refinement (of style)
- Synonym: refinamiento
Related terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: elegansya
Further reading
- “elegancia”, 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