surmenage
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsurmenage m (uncountable)
Descendants
edit- → Italian: surmenage
Further reading
edit- “surmenage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French surmenage.
Noun
editsurmenage m (invariable)
- overwork (mental or physical)
- overtraining (sports)
Further reading
edit- surmenage in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French surmenage.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsurmenage m (plural surmenages)
- overwork
- nervous breakdown
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los trabajos y los días”, in El juguete rabioso:
- —¿Medio anarquista, eh? Cuide su cerebro, amiguito… cuídelo, que entre los 20 y 22 años va a sufrir un surmenage.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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