sencillo

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish senziello, from Vulgar Latin *singellus, from Latin singulus. Compare Portuguese singelo, Catalan senzill, Asturian cenciellu.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /senˈθiʝo/ [sẽn̟ˈθi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /senˈθiʝo/ [sẽn̟ˈθi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /senˈθiʎo/ [sẽn̟ˈθi.ʎo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /senˈsiʝo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /senˈsiʝo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /senˈsiʎo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /senˈsiʃo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /senˈsiʒo/ [sẽnˈsi.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo
• Rhymes: -iʎo
• Rhymes: -iʃo
• Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: sen‧ci‧llo

Adjective

sencillo (feminine sencilla, masculine plural sencillos, feminine plural sencillas, superlative sencillísimo)

1. plain

   Synonym: llano

2. simple, straightforward

   Synonym: franco

   Antonym: complicado

Usage notes

• A way to think of the difference between sencillo and simple, which both mean "simple" in English, is that the antonym of sencillo is complicado (“complicated”), whereas the antonym of simple is complejo (“complex”).

Descendants

• → Catalan: senzill

Noun

sencillo m (plural sencillos)

1. (music) single
2. (baseball) single
3. (Latin America, southern Philippines) small change

   Synonym: calderilla

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: sensilyo
• → Cebuano: sensilyo

Further reading

• “sencillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• sencillo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es