escarnio
See also: escárnio
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Spanish escarnir (“taunt”), from Lombardic/Old High German *skirnjan.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editescarnio m (plural escarnios)
- jibe, taunt
- 2015 July 8, “Rapados, maniatados y vejados por opositar a maestro”, in El País[1]:
- El escarnio a que se han visto sometido los profesores que querían acceder a las plazas no es más que un aviso de lo que está por venir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “escarnio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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