ironía

Spanish

noun

Definitions

irony

Etymology

Inherited from Latin īrōnīa derived from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (pretext, irony, deception, hypocrisy).

Origin

Ancient Greek

εἰρωνεία

Gloss

pretext, irony, deception, hypocrisy

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

ironia Latin
īrōnīa Latin
ironie French
ирония Russian
εἰρωνεία Ancient Greek
εἴρων Ancient Greek
ironi Norwegian Bokmål
ironi Norwegian Nynorsk
ironi Danish
ironija Serbo-Croatian
ironía Galician
ironie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
ironie Middle French
ironija Slovene
ironía Aragonese