carvallo
Spanish
Alternative forms
- carballo
Etymology
From Galician carballo. Further etymology unknown; possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaɾˈbaʝo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kaɾˈbaʎo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaɾˈbaʃo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaɾˈbaʒo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʒo]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -aʝo
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -aʎo
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -aʃo
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -aʒo
- Syllabification: car‧va‧llo
Noun
carvallo m (plural carvallos)
- (Spain) oak
- Synonym: roble
- (Spain) Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea)
- Synonyms: quejigo, rebollo
Further reading
- “carvallo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014