fehaciente

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish fefaciente, from fe (“faith”) + faciente,[1] from Latin faciēns (“making”), the present participle of faciō (“to make”), whose descendant in modern Spanish is hacer. Compare Catalan fefaent.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Spain) /feaˈθjente/ [fe.aˈθjẽn̪.t̪e]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /feaˈsjente/ [fe.aˈsjẽn̪.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ente
  • Syllabification: fe‧ha‧cien‧te

Adjective

fehaciente (plural fehacientes)

  1. reliable, indisputable

Derived terms

References
  1. “fehaciente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Further reading
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