monaguillo
Spanish
Etymology
From monacillo, from Vulgar Latin *monachellus, diminutive of Late Latin monachus (“monk”), from late Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”). Influenced by older mónago (“monk”), from the same source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /monaˈɡiʝo/ [mo.naˈɣ̞i.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /monaˈɡiʎo/ [mo.naˈɣ̞i.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /monaˈɡiʃo/ [mo.naˈɣ̞i.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /monaˈɡiʒo/ [mo.naˈɣ̞i.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: mo‧na‧gui‧llo
Noun
monaguillo m (plural monaguillos)
- altar boy, acolyte
- Synonyms: acólito, monago
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter VII, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 101:
- —Hay que ser un poco monaguillo, Carlitos. Me he camelado a mi primo para que se ponga en mi lugar hoy.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Further reading
- “monaguillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014