chinche
See also: chinché
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Mozarabic *činče, itself from Latin cīmicem. Displaced Old Spanish cisme, the native Spanish form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃint͡ʃe/ [ˈt͡ʃĩnʲ.t͡ʃe]
- Rhymes: -intʃe
- Syllabification: chin‧che
Derived terms
Verb
chinche
- inflection of chinchar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “chinche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “chinche”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 362
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