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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin morticīnus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /moɾteˈθino/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /moɾteˈsino/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Syllabification: mor‧te‧ci‧no
Adjective
mortecino (feminine mortecina, masculine plural mortecinos, feminine plural mortecinas)
- dim (not bright)
- dull, boring
2015 October 25, “Columna”, in El País:Si la falta de disensión, de discusión; si los modales corteses o prudentes que nos gastamos todos no acaban por dar la impresión de que la literatura es algo plano y mortecino, más languideciente de lo que está.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- dying
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