Feminine

pretensione

Meaning

  1. (feminine, literary) pretension, claim
  2. (feminine, literary) overconfidence
  3. (feminine, literary) pretentiousness
  4. (feminine, literary) an excessive request for pay or rewards

Hyphenated as
pre‧ten‧sió‧ne
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pre.tenˈsjo.ne/
Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin praetēnsiōnem, derived from Latin praetendō (“to stretch forth”).

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