esconder

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Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
es‧con‧der
Pronounced as (IPA)
/eskonˈdeɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish esconder, from an original asconder (via replacement of the prefix with es-), from Latin abscondere. It formerly showed the expected diphthongization of stressed Latin /ŏ/ in rhizotonic conjugations (cf. older escuendo), but this was later levelled out by analogy with arrhizotonic conjugations. Doublet of absconder and cognate with English abscond.

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