depresasyon
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish depreciación, with change of -ciación to -sasyon (cf. asosasyon, negosasyon) in effort to pronounce two consecutive syllables with /sj/.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: dep‧re‧sas‧yon
- IPA(key): /dɛpɾɛsasˈjon/, [dɛpɾɛsɐˈʃon]
Noun
depresasyón
- depreciation (state); disparagement
- Synonym: paghamak
- (economics) depreciation (decline in value)
Further reading
- “depresasyon” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.