mismo
Meaning
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- same; identical; one and the same; indicates that the two compared noun clauses both represent the one thing
- similar; alike; practically identical; indicates that the two compared noun clauses have one or more matching qualities
- (with-personal-pronoun) self; emphasizes the identity or singularity of the modified noun phrase
- own; emphasizes the owner or the exclusivity of ownership in a noun phrase with a possessive pronoun
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mis‧mo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmismo/
Etymology
From earlier mesmo, from Old Spanish mesmo, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus (compare French même, Italian medesimo, Portuguese mesmo), from Latin -met, an emphatic suffix, + ipse (“himself”) + -issimus (a superlative suffix).
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