subyacer

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin subiacēre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /subʝaˈθeɾ/
 
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /subʝaˈseɾ/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /subʃaˈseɾ/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /subʒaˈseɾ/

  • Rhymes: -eɾ
  • Syllabification: sub‧ya‧cer

Verb

subyacer (first-person singular present subyazco or subyazgo or subyago, first-person singular preterite subyací, past participle subyacido)

  1. (intransitive) to underlie
    • 2022 May 26, Elsa Fernández-Santos, “El español Albert Serra deslumbra en Cannes con el paraíso crepuscular de su nueva película”, in El País:
      Como en todo gran relato en el que subyace el colonialismo, Serra compone su particular versión de El corazón de las tinieblas a partir de una lectura que nada tiene que ver con Conrad []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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