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In the cognate word in Spanish, e-ne-mi-go, the n is not part of the first but instead begins the second syllable. In English, one could use a hyphen to divide the word "enemy" after the n: en-e-my. In Spanish, the hyphen is permitted only after ene-mi-go.
Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...
For example, Peña is a common Spanish surname and a common noun that means "rocky hill"; it is often anglicized as Pena, changing the name to the Spanish word for "pity", often used in terms of sorrow. When Federico Peña was first running for mayor of Denver in 1983, the Denver Post printed his name without the tilde as "Pena." After he won ...
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
In dual naming, words in two different languages have been joined by a hyphen or a slash to become the community's (or geographic feature's) official name, often because of language politics: Vitoria-Gasteiz: the combination of this city's Spanish name of Vitoria and Basque name of Gasteiz
Context would help. According to the DRAE, adonio has the same meaning in Spanish as it does in Italian. A more common Spanish word with almost the same pronunciation is "idóneo", which means suitable. Googling also shows that it is a name, probably a variant of Adonis. --NorwegianBlue talk 20:06, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
A hyphenation algorithm is a set of rules, especially one codified for implementation in a computer program, that decides at which points a word can be broken over two lines with a hyphen. For example, a hyphenation algorithm might decide that impeachment can be broken as impeach-ment or im-peachment but not impe-achment .
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