corriente
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin currentem.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /koˈrjente/ [koˈrjẽn̪.t̪e]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: co‧rrien‧te
Adjective edit
corriente m or f (masculine and feminine plural corrientes)
- flowing, running
- agua corriente ― running water
- current (existing or occurring at the moment)
- Synonym: actual
- el corriente (mes) ― the current month
- common, usual
- ordinary, normal
- Synonym: ordinario
- una persona corriente ― a regular person
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Noun edit
corriente f (plural corrientes)
- current (the generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid)
- corriente de aire ― air current; draught
- Ellipsis of corriente eléctrica (“electric current”).
- current, trend, tendency
- Synonym: tendencia
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Further reading edit
- “corriente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014