fehaciente
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish fefaciente, from fe (“faith”) + faciente,[1] from Latin faciēns (“making”), the present participle of faciō (“to make”), whose descendant in modern Spanish is hacer. Compare Catalan fefaent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /feaˈθjente/ [fe.aˈθjẽn̪.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /feaˈsjente/ [fe.aˈsjẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: fe‧ha‧cien‧te
Adjective
fehaciente (plural fehacientes)
- reliable, indisputable
Derived terms
- fehacientemente
References
- “fehaciente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
- “fehaciente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014