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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /sosˈlaʝo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sosˈlaʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sosˈlaʒo/
- Rhymes: -aʝo
- Syllabification: sos‧la‧yo
Etymology 1
Related to the verb soslayar (“to place obliquely”), from Old Spanish deslayer (“to go outside the tangent”), from Old French d'eslais (“impetuously”), from s'esslaisier (“to throw with impetus”), from laissier (“to leave”).[1]
Adjective
soslayo (feminine soslaya, masculine plural soslayos, feminine plural soslayas)
- slanted, oblique, sideways
- Synonym: oblicuo
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
soslayo
- first-person singular present indicative of soslayar
References
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 567
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