sencillo
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish senziello, from Vulgar Latin *singellus, from Latin singulus. Compare Portuguese singelo, Catalan senzill, Asturian cenciellu.
Pronunciation
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- Syllabification: sen‧ci‧llo
Adjective
[edit]sencillo (feminine sencilla, masculine plural sencillos, feminine plural sencillas, superlative sencillísimo)
- plain
- Synonym: llano
- simple, straightforward
- Synonym: franco
- Antonym: complicado
Usage notes
[edit]- A way to think of the difference between sencillo and simple, which both mean "simple" in English, is that the antonym of sencillo is complicado (“complicated”), whereas the antonym of simple is complejo (“complex”).
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: senzill
Noun
[edit]sencillo m (plural sencillos)
- (music) single
- (baseball) single
- (Latin America, southern Philippines) small change
- Synonym: calderilla
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sencillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
sencillo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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