tejadillo
Spanish
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A tejadillo (sense 2) made of corrugated metal.
Etymology
tejado + -illo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /texaˈdiʝo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /texaˈdiʎo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /texaˈdiʃo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /texaˈdiʒo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.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: te‧ja‧di‧llo
Noun
tejadillo m (plural tejadillos)
- Diminutive of tejado
- A door canopy.
- (Basque pelota) The tiled covering of the gallery of a trinquete.
Further reading
- “tejadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014