escarmiento

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eskaɾˈmjento/
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: es‧car‧mien‧to

Etymology 1

Apocope of escarnimiento, from Old Spanish escarnir (“to mock”), from Vulgar Latin *scarniō, from a hypothetical Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*skairnjan).

Noun

escarmiento m (plural escarmientos)

  1. punishment
    Synonyms: condena, pena, castigo
  2. warning, lesson

Etymology 2

Verb

escarmiento

  1. first-person singular present indicative of escarmentar

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