seseo
See also: seseó
Galician
Noun
seseo m (plural seseos)
- An accent in Spanish and Galician that pronounces z as /s/ and c before e or i as /s/. Someone who has a seseo accent would pronounce the words caza, meaning 'hunt' or he or she hunts, and casa, meaning house, with an [s] sound. The words would sound identical. This accent can be typically found in the north-central of Spain and throughout the Americas.
Related terms
- ceceo
- seseante
- sesear
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seˈseo/ [seˈse.o]
- Rhymes: -eo
- Syllabification: se‧se‧o
Etymology 1
Deverbal from sesear.
Noun
seseo m (plural seseos)
- an accent in Spanish and Galician that pronounces z, and c when before e or i, as /s/ as opposed to /θ/
- Coordinate term: ceceo
Related terms
- ceceo
- seseante
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
seseo
- first-person singular present indicative of sesear
Further reading
- “seseo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
seseo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es