residencia
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish residencia.
Noun
editresidencia (plural residencias)
- In Spanish countries, a court or trial held by a newly elected official, such as the governor of a province, to examine the conduct of a predecessor.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “residencia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editGalician
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin residentia, from Latin residēns (“residing”), from resideō (“to reside”), from re- + sedeō (“to sit”).
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: re‧si‧den‧cia
Noun
editresidencia f (plural residencias)
- residence (time spent living)
- Dez anos de residencia no noso país e casi non fala galego. ― After ten years of residence in the country, he barely speaks Galician.
- residence, home (the place where one lives)
- Teño a miña residencia en Valencia, pero sempre estou viaxando. ― I have my residence in Valencia, but I am always travelling.
- old people's home, rest home, nursing home (a place of residence for people who require assistance from carers)
- Synonyms: residencia de maiores, residencia de anciáns, (usually pejorative) asilo
- old people's home, retirement village, retirement home, residence for the elderly (a place of residence for people who require little or no assistance from carers)
- Synonyms: residencia de maiores, residencia de anciáns, (usually pejorative) asilo
Related terms
editSee also
editFurther reading
edit- “residencia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Spanish
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /resiˈdenθja/ [re.siˈð̞ẽn̟.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /resiˈdensja/ [re.siˈð̞ẽn.sja]
- Rhymes: -enθja
- Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: re‧si‧den‧cia
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from Medieval Latin residentia, from Latin residēns (“residing”), from resideō (“to reside”), from re- + sedeō (“to sit”).
Noun
editresidencia f (plural residencias)
- residence (time spent living)
- Diez años de residencia en nuestro país y no habla casi español.
- After ten years of residence in the country, he barely speaks Spanish.
- residence, home (the place where one lives)
- Tengo mi residencia en Valencia, pero siempre estoy viajando.
- I have my residence in Valencia, but I am always travelling.
- old people's home, rest home, nursing home (a place of residence for people who require assistance from carers)
- Synonyms: residencia de mayores, residencia de ancianos, (usually pejorative) asilo
- old people's home, retirement village, retirement home, residence for the elderly (a place of residence for people who require little or no assistance from carers)
- Synonyms: residencia de mayores, residencia de ancianos, (usually pejorative) asilo
Related terms
editSee also
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editresidencia
- inflection of residenciar:
Further reading
edit- “residencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “residencia” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.
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- Rhymes:Galician/enθja
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