escarmiento

Meaning

escarmentar

  1. to punish severely, reprimand, rebuke
  2. to learn a lesson

Translations

abschreckendes Beispiel

esempio deterrente

harte Strafe

Geißlung

verdiente Strafe

Frequency

34k
Hyphenated as
es‧car‧mien‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/eskaɾˈmjento/
Etymology

Apocope of escarnimiento, from Old Spanish escarnir (“to mock”), from Vulgar Latin *scarniō, from a hypothetical Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*skairnjan).

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