suciedad
Spanish
Alternative forms
- suziedat (obsolete)
Etymology
From sucio + -edad; cognate with Galician sucidade, Portuguese sujidade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /suθjeˈdad/ [su.θjeˈð̞að̞]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /susjeˈdad/ [su.sjeˈð̞að̞]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: su‧cie‧dad
Noun
suciedad f (plural suciedades)
- dirt
- dirtiness, filth
- 2010, Manuel Segura Beneyto, Manipulador de comidas preparadas, Editorial Club Universitario, →ISBN, page 193:
- Además, para que sea realmente eficaz, debe ir acompañada de una desinfección de las superficies que se hayan limpiado previamente, para destruir los microorganismos que se asocian a la suciedad.
- In addition, in order to be really effective, it should be accompanied by the disinfection of previously cleaned surfaces, to destroy the microorganisms associated with dirtiness.
- prurience; metaphorical dirtiness
Related terms
Further reading
- “suciedad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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