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Spanish
Etymology
From hallar + -azgo, or from a Vulgar Latin *afflāticum, from Latin afflō. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese achádego
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain) /aˈʝaθɡo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain) /aˈʎaθɡo/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈʝasɡo/
- IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /aˈʝasɡo/
- IPA(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /aˈʎasɡo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aˈʃasɡo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aˈʒasɡo/
- Rhymes: -aθɡo
- Rhymes: -asɡo
- Syllabification: ha‧llaz‧go
Noun
hallazgo m (plural hallazgos)
- discovery
- Synonym: descubrimiento
- (obsolete) reward (for discovering and returning lost property to the owner)
- Synonym: gratificación
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