cuello

cuello

See also: Cuello

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin collum.

Noun

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cuello”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin collum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎo/

Noun

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r. a.

     Corrio eſau aencuẽtro de ſo ermano. E abraçol & echo ſobre ſo cuello el braço.

     Esau ran to meet with his brother, then he hugged him and put his arm over his neck.

   • Idem, f. 61r. a.

     Eſtas palabras hyua diziendo por la uilla de ih̃r̃l̃m e yua cõ la cadena enel cuello

     He said these words throughout the city of Jerusalem while walking with the chain around his neck

Descendants

• Spanish: cuello

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish cuello, from Latin collum. Cognate with English collar, French cou, Italian collo, Portuguese colo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʝo/ [ˈkwe.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkweʝo/ [ˈkwe.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈkweʎo/ [ˈkwe.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkweʃo/ [ˈkwe.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkweʒo/ [ˈkwe.ʒo]

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• Rhymes: -eʝo

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝo
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎo
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃo
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒo

• Syllabification: cue‧llo

Noun

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck (part of body connecting the head and the torso)
2. collar (part of a shirt fitting around the neck)

Derived terms

• acollar
• alzacuello
• a voz en cuello
• con el agua al cuello
• cuelliblanco
• cuellilargo
• cuellinegro
• cuellirrojo
• cuello alto
• cuello de botella
• cuello uterino
• hasta el cuello
• meter cuello
• tiracuello

 

Related terms

• collar

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kwelyo
• → Tagalog: kuwelyo

See also

• cogote

Further reading

• “cuello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014