adyacente

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-kt

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder.

Latin iaciō

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *-ējō

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ēō

Latin -eō

Latin iaceō

Latin adiaceō

Latin adiacentembor.

Spanish adyacente

Borrowed from Latin adiacentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adʝaˈθente/ [a.ð̞ʝaˈθẽn̪.t̪e] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)

 

• IPA^(key): /adʝaˈsente/ [a.ð̞ʝaˈsẽn̪.t̪e] (Latin America, Philippines)

• IPA^(key): /adʝaˈsente/ [a.ð̞ʝaˈsẽn̪.t̪e] (most of Latin America, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /adʃaˈsente/ [a.ð̞ʃaˈsẽn̪.t̪e] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /adʒaˈsente/ [a.ð̞ʒaˈsẽn̪.t̪e] (elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

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• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: ad‧ya‧cen‧te

Adjective

adyacente m or f (masculine and feminine plural adyacentes)

1. adjacent

Related terms

• adyacencia
• adyacer

Further reading

• “adyacente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025