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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e(ɡ)sˈtɾaɲo/
- Rhymes: -aɲo
- Syllabification: ex‧tra‧ño
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish estranno, from Latin extrāneus, with /k/ originally lost and later reinserted according to the Latin form. Cognate with English extraneous and strange.
Adjective
extraño (feminine extraña, masculine plural extraños, feminine plural extrañas, superlative extrañísimo)
- strange, unusual, odd, weird, bizarre, uncanny, rare, peculiar, freaky, freakish, freak, curious
- Synonym: raro
- Antonym: común
Es extraño cómo las cosas pueden cambiar tan rápidamente.- It's strange how things can change so quickly.
La señora casi perdió la pierna en un accidente extraño.- The lady almost lost her leg in a freak accident.
- foreign, alien, extraneous
- Synonyms: foráneo, forastero, extranjero
- Antonym: nacional
Había un objeto extraño en el abdomen.- There was a foreign object in his/her abdomen.
- funny, suspicious
- Synonym: sospechoso
- Antonym: entendible
Tengo una extraña sensación de que no fue una coincidencia.- I've got a funny feeling that it wasn't a coincidence.
- not belonging to, not possessed by, not property of
- Synonym: ajeno
- Antonym: propio
Derived terms
Noun
extraño m (plural extraños, feminine extraña, feminine plural )
- foreigner
- Synonyms: fuereño, forastero
- Antonym: lugareño
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
extraño
- first-person singular present indicative of extrañar
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