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Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /entɾeˈsixos/
- Rhymes: -ixos
- Syllabification: en‧tre‧si‧jos
Noun
entresijos m pl (plural only)
- ins and outs, intricacies
- tener muchos entresijos ― to have many in and outs
El investigador intentó descubrir los entresijos del crimen.[1]- The investigator tried to figure out the intricacies of the crime.
1929, Félix Azzati, “Prologo”, in Seis personajes en busca de autor:[…] Pirandello no se ha propuesto puesto o no ha deliberado una originalidad chocante, presuntuosa, sólo de epígrafes y vacía de texto, como tantos otros en quienes descubrimos ruínas de ideas asomando por los entresijos de unas palabras que serían bellas como hallazgo filológico, si no sirvieran para embadurnar, ya que no barnizar, de nuevo, la flaca y avejentada imagen de su decadencia.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- plural of entresijo
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