peyorativo

Ladino

Adjective

peyorativo (feminine peyorativa, masculine plural peyorativos, feminine plural peyorativas)

1. pejorative

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French péjoratif, from Late Latin pejōrātus, perfect passive participle of pejōrō (“to make worse”), from pejor (“worse”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /peʝoɾaˈtibo/ [pe.ʝo.ɾaˈt̪i.β̞o]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /peʝoɾaˈtibo/ [pe.ʝo.ɾaˈt̪i.β̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /peʃoɾaˈtibo/ [pe.ʃo.ɾaˈt̪i.β̞o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /peʒoɾaˈtibo/ [pe.ʒo.ɾaˈt̪i.β̞o]

• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: pe‧yo‧ra‧ti‧vo

Adjective

peyorativo (feminine peyorativa, masculine plural peyorativos, feminine plural peyorativas)

1. pejorative

   Synonyms: despectivo, despreciativo

Noun

peyorativo m (plural peyorativos)

1. pejorative (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)

Related terms

• peor

Further reading

• “peyorativo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10