deficiencia

== Spanish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin dēficientia. Compare Catalan deficiència, French déficience, Italian deficienza, Portuguese deficiência. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /defiˈθjenθja/ [d̪e.fiˈθjẽn̟.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /defiˈsjensja/ [d̪e.fiˈsjẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -enθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines) Syllabification: de‧fi‧cien‧cia === Noun === deficiencia f (plural deficiencias) deficiency [from 1543] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “deficiencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025