portillo
See also: Portillo
Spanish
Etymology
puerta + -illo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /poɾˈtiʝo/ [poɾˈt̪i.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /poɾˈtiʎo/ [poɾˈt̪i.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /poɾˈtiʃo/ [poɾˈt̪i.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /poɾˈtiʒo/ [poɾˈt̪i.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: por‧ti‧llo
Noun
portillo m (plural portillos)
- gate
- 2015 September 16, “Una triple crisis europea”, in El País:
- Decenas de miles de personas se hallan deambulando entre Grecia y los Balcanes a la espera de encontrar el portillo hacia un país que les acepte como asilados.
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Derived terms
- desportillar
Further reading
- “portillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014