Noun: certidumbre
Gender: f
Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧dum‧bre
| Singular f | certidumbre |
| Plural f | certidumbres |
Sample Sentences
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Son postpartidos llamados a funcionar como cooperativas sociopolíticas; espacios de valores y códigos actitudinales en común: colaborativos, orientados a la acción y a la creatividad, más que al refugio de certidumbres heredadas. (They are post-parties called to function as socio-political cooperatives; spaces of common values and attitudinal codes: collaborative, oriented to action and creativity, rather than to the refuge of inherited certainties.) [2015 July 30, “El crisol de una nueva hegemonía”, in El País:]
Nouns inflected like certidumbre
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin certitūdō, certitūdinem, derived from certus (“certain”). Doublet of certitud, a borrowing. Equivalent to cierto + -dumbre. This suffix is found in a few other Spanish words: muchedumbre, servidumbre, dulcedumbre, mansedumbre, as well as pesadumbre. See: Latin Nouns '
certitūdō', Latin Nouns '
certitūdō'.
Verbs referencing "certidumbre"
Galician Nouns
certidume.
Translations