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sencillo

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish senziello, from Vulgar Latin *singellus, from Latin singulus. Compare Portuguese singelo, Catalan senzill, Asturian cenciellu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /senˈθiʝo/ [sẽn̟ˈθi.ʝo]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /senˈθiʎo/ [sẽn̟ˈθi.ʎo]

IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /senˈsiʝo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʝo]
IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /senˈsiʎo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʎo]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /senˈsiʃo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʃo]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /senˈsiʒo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʒo]

Rhymes: -iʝo
Rhymes: -iʎo
Rhymes: -iʃo
Rhymes: -iʒo

Syllabification: sen‧ci‧llo

Adjective

sencillo (feminine sencilla, masculine plural sencillos, feminine plural sencillas, superlative sencillísimo)

plain
Synonym: llano
simple, straightforward
Synonym: franco

Antonym: complicado

Usage notes

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”).

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: senzill

Noun

sencillo m (plural sencillos)

(music) single
(baseball) single
(Latin America, southern Philippines) small change
Synonym: calderilla

Descendants

→ Bikol Central: sensilyo
→ Cebuano: sensilyo

Further reading

“sencillo”, 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
“sencillo”, 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
“sencillo”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019
sencillo | Diccionario • DELE Ahora
DiPerú | Diccionario de peruanismos en línea
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