ficción

See also: ficcion

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fictiōnem. Cognate with Portuguese ficção.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /fikˈθjoŋ/ [fikˈθjoŋ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /fikˈθjoŋ/ [fikˈθjoŋ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /fikˈsjoŋ/ [fikˈsjoŋ]

• Rhymes: -oŋ

Noun

ficción f (plural ficcións)

1. fiction (imaginary fact, fabulous invention)
2. fiction (literary or cinematic creation in which the author makes an imaginary reading of reality)

Derived terms

• ficción científica

 

Further reading

• “ficción”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fictiōnem. Cognate with English fiction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /fiɡˈθjon/ [fiɣ̞ˈθjõn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /fiɡˈsjon/ [fiɣ̞ˈsjõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: fic‧ción

Noun

ficción f (plural ficciones)

1. fiction

Hyponyms

• ciencia ficción
• ficción especulativa
• ficción filosófica (“philosophical fiction”)
• ficción histórica
• ficción paranoica (“paranoid fiction”)
• ficción política (“political fiction”)

 

Derived terms

• ficcional
• no ficción

 

Related terms

• ficticio
• fingir

 

Further reading

• “ficción”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28