nonada
Spanish
FWOTD – 11 November 2014
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /noˈnada/ [noˈna.ð̞a]
- Rhymes: -ada
- Syllabification: no‧na‧da
Noun
nonada f (plural nonadas)
- a thing or event of little or no importance or value
- 1787, R. P. Fr. Jacinto Montargon, Don Francisco Mariano Nipho (translator), Diccionario apostolico, &c., volume 2, Don Miguél Escribano, page 237:
- Durante la vida estas cosas son nonadas, y vienen á ser monstruos en la hora de la muerte: […]
- These are meaningless things during life, and become monsters when it’s time to die: […]
- Las ganancias eran una nonada a comparación del dinero invertido.
- The profit was nothing compared to the original investment.
- Synonym: nada
- 1787, R. P. Fr. Jacinto Montargon, Don Francisco Mariano Nipho (translator), Diccionario apostolico, &c., volume 2, Don Miguél Escribano, page 237:
Derived terms
Further reading
- “nonada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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