depresasyon

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish depreciación, with change of -ciación to -sasyon (cf. asosasyon, negosasyon) in effort to pronounce two consecutive syllables with /sj/.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: dep‧re‧sas‧yon
  • IPA(key): /depɾesasˈjon/, [dep.ɾe.sɐˈʃon]

Noun

depresasyón

  1. depreciation (state); disparagement
    Synonym: paghamak
  2. (economics) depreciation (decline in value)

Further reading

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