semejanza
Spanish
Etymology
semejar + -anza; cf. also Late Latin similāntia. Compare Portuguese semelhança, Galician semellanza, Catalan semblança, French ressemblance (Old French semblance), Italian somiglianza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /semeˈxanθa/ [se.meˈxãn̟.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /semeˈxansa/ [se.meˈxãn.sa]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -anθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ansa
- Syllabification: se‧me‧jan‧za
Noun
semejanza f (plural semejanzas)
- likeness, similarity, resemblance, similitude
- Synonyms: similaridad, semblanza, similitud
Related terms
- semejante
Further reading
- “semejanza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014