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Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin reductio, reductionem.
Noun
reducción f (plural reduccións)
- reduction
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reductiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /reduɡˈθjon/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /reduɡˈsjon/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: re‧duc‧ción
Noun
reducción f (plural reducciones)
- reduction
- Synonym: rebaja
- (historical) in Spanish America, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population
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