Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

desaparecido

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-sa-pare-ci-do
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military rule in Argentina, presumed to have been killed by members of the regime.

noun

One of the people who disappeared during the 1972-1981 martial law in the Philippines, presumed to be killed by the military.

Example Sentences

"And Timerman's memoir, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number, was the book above all that clothed in living, hurting flesh the necessarily abstract idea of the desaparecido: the disappeared one or, to invest it with the more sinister and grisly past participle with which it came into the world, the one who has been “disappeared.”"
"The French missionaries aided the mothers of Argentina's desaparecidos by accompanying them to police stations and military barracks looking for news of their children, before being kidnapped themselves by Astiz."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish desaparecido.

Inflected Forms

desaparecidos (plural)

Questions

What does desaparecido mean?: One of the people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military rule in Argentina, presumed to have been killed by members of the regime.
Where does desaparecido come from?: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish desaparecido.

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