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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin imprūdentia. Cognate with English imprudence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /impɾuˈdenθja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /impɾuˈdensja/
- Rhymes: -enθja
- Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: im‧pru‧den‧cia
Noun
imprudencia f (plural imprudencias)
- imprudence
1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 160:Las personas que muestran en la cara una mancha obscura, entre la negra, y violácea, nacieron con este feo estigma porque sus madres, durante el embarazo, tuvieron la imprudencia de contemplar algún eclipse de luna o de sol.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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