tezontle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tezontle, from Nahuatl tetzontli, from tetl (“stone”) + tzontli (“head hair”).
Noun
tezontle (uncountable)
- A porous, extrusive, igneous, volcanic rock, usually reddish in colour, used extensively in construction in Mexico.
Spanish
Etymology
From Classical Nahuatl tetzontli, from tetl (“stone”) + tzontli (“head, hair”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /teˈθontle/ [t̪eˈθõn̪.t̪le]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /teˈsontle/ [t̪eˈsõn̪.t̪le]
- Rhymes: -ontle
- Syllabification: te‧zon‧tle
Noun
tezontle m (uncountable)
- tezontle
Descendants
- English: tezontle
Further reading
- “tezontle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014