gallito

gallito

English

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Noun

gallito (plural gallitos)

1. Either of two birds in the Rhinocryptidae family, the crested gallito (Rhinocrypta lanceolata) or the sandy gallito (Teledromas fuscus).
2. A species of flowering tree in the legume family Fabaceae, Erythrina fusca.

Anagrams

• galliot

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Spanish

Etymology

gallo +‎ -ito

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʝito/ [ɡaˈʝi.t̪o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ɡaˈʝito/ [ɡaˈʝi.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ɡaˈʎito/ [ɡaˈʎi.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ɡaˈʃito/ [ɡaˈʃi.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡaˈʒito/ [ɡaˈʒi.t̪o]

• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: ga‧lli‧to

Noun

gallito m (plural gallitos)

1. Diminutive of gallo, cockerel, little cock
2. (Venezuela, chiefly in the plural) popcorn

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita

Further reading

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