🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

resultado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /resu/lˈtaðo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Outgrowth/ˈaʊt.ɡroʊθ/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La nueva política es un resultado directo de la crisis."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A natural consequence or development arising out of something else.

    "The new community center was a direct outgrowth of the grassroots neighborhood movement."
  2. 2

    Something that grows out of a plant, body, or structure; an offshoot or protrusion.

    "Biologists observed a strange fungal outgrowth on the side of the decaying log."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'outgrow' (from Middle English 'outgrowen', combining 'out-' and 'growen') combined with the nominalizing suffix '-th' (derived from Proto-Germanic *-ithō). It first appeared in the late 16th century, initially referring to a physical branch or botanical protrusion before expanding metaphorically to describe natural consequences or developments.

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