quebrantamiento
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From quebrantar + -miento.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kebɾantaˈmjento/ [ke.β̞ɾãn̪.t̪aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: que‧bran‧ta‧mien‧to
Noun edit
quebrantamiento m (plural quebrantamientos)
- brokenness, weakening
- breaking, violation (e.g. of law or rules, of a covenant or pact)
- breach, breaching (i.e. failure to perform some obligation)
- breakdown, disruption (of established social order)
- (literary) destruction
Further reading edit
- “quebrantamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014