la
feminine
/maˈtanθa/
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Translation
slaughter
Word origin
From matar ('to kill') plus the suffix -anza, which forms nouns of action. Matanza therefore names the act or result of killing.
- Origin
- Spanish
- Root
- matar
Grammar
Genderfeminine
Pluralmatanzas
Examples
.
The battle ended in a terrible slaughter.
historiadores .
Historians study the massacre of that winter.
relata .
The documentary recounts the massacre with archive footage.
, tradición .
In the village, the slaughter of the pig was an annual tradition.
.
Nobody wanted to remember the killing of those years.
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