penchant
Senso (Inglese)
- (countable, uncountable) Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
- (uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.
- (countable, uncountable) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
Concetti
sinonimi
preconceived opinion
avocation
Traduzioni
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈpɒnʃɒn/
Etimologia (Inglese)
Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).
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