Concepción
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Concepción
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Etymology edit
From concepción (“conception”), shortened from María (de la Inmaculada) Concepción, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception".
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /konθebˈθjon/ [kõn̟.θeβ̞ˈθjõn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /konsebˈsjon/ [kõn.seβ̞ˈsjõn]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: Con‧cep‧ción
Proper noun edit
Concepción f
- a female given name
- Synonyms: Inmaculada, Concha, Conchita
- any of a number of places in Latin America
- A province of Chile
- (historical) A department of Chile
- (historical) A province of Chile (first-level division) until 1974.
- A department of Paraguay
- A city in Paraguay
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Further reading edit
- Immaculate Conception on Wikipedia.Wikipedia