seseo

seseo m (plural seseos)

1. an accent in Spanish and Galician that pronounces z, and c before e or i, as /s/ rather than /θ/

• Someone who has a seseo accent would pronounce the words caza, meaning 'hunt' or he or she hunts, and casa, meaning house, with a [s] sound. The words would sound identical. This accent can be typically found in the north-central of Spain and throughout the Americas.

• ceceo
• seseante
• sesear

• IPA^(key): /seˈseo/ [seˈse.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: se‧se‧o

Deverbal from sesear.

seseo m (plural seseos)

1. an accent in Spanish and Galician that pronounces z, and c before e or i, as /s/ rather than /θ/

   Coordinate term: ceceo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

seseo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sesear

• “seseo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• seseo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es