Feminine

pereza

Meaning

  1. (feminine) laziness
  2. (colloquial, feminine) a drag (something tedious)
  3. (Venezuela, feminine) sloth (mammal)

Frequency

25k
Hyphenated as
pe‧re‧za
Pronounced as (IPA)
/peˈɾeθa/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Latin pigritia. Doublet of pigricia, which was a later borrowing.

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