Spanish word

pedanía

Pronunciation

IPA/peðaˈnia/

Meaning

  • feminine nounsmall village

Example

Conozco bien la pedanía y a sus vecinos.

I know the small village and its neighbors well.

Illustration for pedanía (small village)

More examples

Vivimos en la pedanía desde hace cinco años.

We have lived in the dependent settlement for five years.

Core concept

Dependent rural settlement with only a few houses and local representation.

Common phrases

  • vivir en la pedanía

    live in the dependent settlement

  • la pedanía más cercana

    the nearest dependent settlement

Similar words

aldea: Small farming village in the countryside, typically a compact cluster of homes.
pueblo: Settlement organized as an independent municipality, governed and serviced locally.

Definition in Spanish

Pequeña población o núcleo habitado que depende administrativamente de un municipio mayor y que a veces tiene un representante local llamado pedáneo.

Word origin

Derived from pedáneo (the local appointee or representative) plus the place-forming suffix -ía, literally 'place of the pedáneo'.

Usage tips

  • In writing the accent on the í (pedanía) matters: it marks the pronunciation and breaks the diphthong, and in conversation the word pueblo is more common.

Other meanings

  • dependent settlementnoun

Opposites

  • zona urbanaurban areanoun

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