bastedad
Spanish
Etymology
From basto (“crude, rough, unpolished”) + -edad. The "abundance" sense is influenced by vastedad (“vastness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /basteˈdad/ [bas.t̪eˈð̞að̞]
- Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: bas‧te‧dad
- Homophone: vastedad
Noun
bastedad f (plural bastedades)
- crudeness, coarseness, roughness
- rudeness, vulgarity
- (rustic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador) abundance, especially of food
Related terms
Further reading
- “bastedad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- “bastedad”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010