"en un principio" meaning in Spanish

See en un principio in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Head templates: {{head|es|adverb}} en un principio
  1. (idiomatic) at the start; at the very beginning Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: de buen comienzo
    Sense id: en-en_un_principio-es-adv-yppsftVR

Download JSON data for en un principio meaning in Spanish (1.1kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "en un principio",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Receiving her within those walls would have been a serious insult to the memory of the deceased, a kind of posthumous provocation, and that man of positive ideas was back then in the beginning of a moral derangement, and bursts of superstitious and childish fear.",
          "ref": "1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra",
          "text": "Recibirla entre aquellas paredes habría sido una grave injuria a la memoria de la finada, una especie de provocación póstuma, y aquel hombre de ideas positivas se encontraba a la sazón en un principio de desquiciamiento moral, y le pasaban por la mente ráfagas de supersticioso y pueril miedo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "at the start; at the very beginning"
      ],
      "id": "en-en_un_principio-es-adv-yppsftVR",
      "links": [
        [
          "start",
          "start"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) at the start; at the very beginning"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "de buen comienzo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "en un principio"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "en un principio",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish adverbs",
        "Spanish idioms",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish multiword terms",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Receiving her within those walls would have been a serious insult to the memory of the deceased, a kind of posthumous provocation, and that man of positive ideas was back then in the beginning of a moral derangement, and bursts of superstitious and childish fear.",
          "ref": "1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra",
          "text": "Recibirla entre aquellas paredes habría sido una grave injuria a la memoria de la finada, una especie de provocación póstuma, y aquel hombre de ideas positivas se encontraba a la sazón en un principio de desquiciamiento moral, y le pasaban por la mente ráfagas de supersticioso y pueril miedo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "at the start; at the very beginning"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "start",
          "start"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) at the start; at the very beginning"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "de buen comienzo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "en un principio"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Spanish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.