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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /empeθiˈnado/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /empesiˈnado/
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: em‧pe‧ci‧na‧do
Adjective
empecinado (feminine empecinada, masculine plural empecinados, feminine plural empecinadas)
- hellbent, hell-bent, dead set, (stubbornly) determined
- Synonym: empeñado
2020 June 17, Luz Gómez García, “Federico Corriente, arabista en la España imposible”, in El País:Con Federico Corriente también se va el mejor lingüista del árabe andalusí, una disciplina que fundó en los años sesenta contra viento y marea de los mandarines del arabismo español, empecinados en la hispanización del pasado peninsular árabe.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Participle
empecinado (feminine empecinada, masculine plural empecinados, feminine plural empecinadas)
- past participle of empecinar
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