lisonja

• Hyphenation: li‧son‧ja

Borrowed from Spanish lisonja, of Occitan or Old French origin.

lisonja f (plural lisonjas)

1. flattery

• lisonjeiro

lisonja

1. inflection of lisonjar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Old Spanish losenja, from Occitan/Old Occitan lauzenja, from Late Latin laudemia (“praise”), from Latin laus. However, compare Old French losenge (“flattery”).

• IPA^(key): /liˈsonxa/ [liˈsõŋ.xa]
• Rhymes: -onxa
• Syllabification: li‧son‧ja

lisonja f (plural lisonjas)

1. flattering comment

   Synonym: piropo

• → Portuguese: lisonja

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

• “lisonja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014