arrollamiento
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /aroʝaˈmjento/ [a.ro.ʝaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /aroʎaˈmjento/ [a.ro.ʎaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aroʃaˈmjento/ [a.ro.ʃaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aroʒaˈmjento/ [a.ro.ʒaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: a‧rro‧lla‧mien‧to
Noun edit
arrollamiento m (plural arrollamientos)
- running over
- 2015 November 22, “Columna”, in El País[1]:
- Y concluye: “Si los partidarios de la conservación del orden no dan muestras de ceder un ápice en sus posiciones, es natural que sus adversarios pierdan la paciencia y pasen a propugnar métodos de arrollamiento, en tanto que los grupos inmovilistas buscan por su parte instrumentos de violencia para impedir a aquéllos lograr su propósito”.
- And he concludes: “If the supporters of the preservation of order do not show signs of yielding an iota in their positions, it is natural that their opponents lose patience and begin to advocate methods of overrun, while the immobilist groups themselves seek instruments of violence to prevent those from achieving their purpose”.
Further reading edit
- “arrollamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014