distancia

See also: distanciá, distancià, distància, and distância

Catalan

Verb

distancia

1. inflection of distanciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: distancias, distanciât

Verb

distancia

1. third-person singular past historic of distancier

Galician

Etymology

From Latin distantia.

Noun

distancia f (plural distancias)

1. distance

Related terms

• distante

Further reading

• “distancia” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Leonese

Etymology

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Noun

distancia f (plural distancias)

1. distance

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

distancia f (plural distancias)

1. Obsolete spelling of distância

Etymology 2

Verb

distancia

1. inflection of distanciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /disˈtanθja/ [d̪isˈt̪ãn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /disˈtansja/ [d̪isˈt̪ãn.sja]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -anθja
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ansja
• Syllabification: dis‧tan‧cia

Etymology 1

From Latin distantia.

Noun

distancia f (plural distancias)

1. distance

   No podrían acertar a un elefante a esta distancia.

   They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.

Derived terms

• a distancia
• distancia de frenado
• distancia de seguridad
• distancia euclidiana
• guardar las distancias
• mando a distancia
• punto de distancia

 

Related terms

• distanciar
• distante
• distar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

distancia

1. inflection of distanciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “distancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014