acial
Spanish
Etymology
From earlier aciar, from Andalusian Arabic الزِيَار (az-ziyār), from Arabic زِيَار (ziyār).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθjal/ [aˈθjal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈsjal/ [aˈsjal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: a‧cial
Noun
acial m (plural aciales) (farriery)
- barnacle, twitch, a kind of pincers or vise to fix the mouth of a horse or similar animals to yield the opportunity of surgery twitch
- riding crop, a short whip for goading
- Synonyms: fusta, látigo
Further reading
- “acial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014