dije
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Derived from dije (“I said”), an inflexion of the verb decir. The intermediate senses appear to have been 'tall tale, gossip' → 'trifle, thingy' → 'trinket'. Cf. the noun chisme, which has all of these senses.
Noun
[edit]dije m (plural dijes)
Adjective
[edit]dije (invariable)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Spanish dixe, from Latin dīxī, form of the verb dicō (“I say”).
Verb
[edit]dije
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “dije”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 495
Further reading
[edit]- “dije”, 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
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