junquillo
Spanish
Etymology
Diminutive of junco (“reed, rush”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /xunˈkiʝo/ [xũŋˈki.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /xunˈkiʎo/ [xũŋˈki.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /xunˈkiʃo/ [xũŋˈki.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /xunˈkiʒo/ [xũŋˈki.ʒo]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo
- Syllabification: jun‧qui‧llo
Noun
junquillo m (plural junquillos)
- (botany) jonquil
Descendants
- → Catalan: jonquillo
- → French: jonquille
- → English: jonquil
- → German: Jonquille
- → Italian: giunchiglia
- → Portuguese: junquilho
Further reading
- “junquillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014