cebolla
Asturian
Etymology
From Late Latin cēpulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa.
Noun
cebolla f (plural cebolles)
- onion (a monocotyledonous plant of genus Allium allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.)
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin cēpulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡seˈboʎa/
Noun
cebolla f (plural cebollas)
- onion
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 65r.
- Et a tal propriedat que ſi la meten en çumo de cebollas, pierde aquella uertud que dixiemos que a de quaiar el argent uiuo.
- And its property is such that if it is placed in onion juice, it loses the virtue we said it has, which is setting quicksilver.
- Et a tal propriedat que ſi la meten en çumo de cebollas, pierde aquella uertud que dixiemos que a de quaiar el argent uiuo.
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 65r.
Descendants
- Spanish: cebolla
Spanish
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Cebollas
Etymology
From Old Spanish cebolla, from Late Latin cēpulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa, whence English chive (via French).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain) /θeˈboʝa/ [θeˈβ̞o.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain) /θeˈboʎa/ [θeˈβ̞o.ʎa]
- IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /seˈboʝa/ [seˈβ̞o.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (Andes Mountains) /seˈboʎa/ [seˈβ̞o.ʎa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /seˈboʃa/ [seˈβ̞o.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /seˈboʒa/ [seˈβ̞o.ʒa]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -oʝa
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -oʎa
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -oʃa
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -oʒa
- Syllabification: ce‧bo‧lla
Noun
cebolla f (plural cebollas)
- onion
Derived terms
- cebolla albarrana
- cebolla de verdeo
- cebolla escalonia
- cebollana
- cebollazo
- cebolleta
- cebollín
- cebollina
- cebollino
- cebollita
- horca de cebollas
- papel cebolla
- tela de cebolla
Descendants
- → Bikol Central: sebolyas
- → Brooke's Point Palawano: sibuyas
- → Cebuano: sibuyas
- → Central Sierra Miwok: siwo·ja-
- → Chamicuro: sewoyo
- → Guaraní: sevói
- → Kapampangan: sibuyas
- → Ladino: sevoya
- → Quechua: siwulla
- → Tagalog: sibuyas
See also
- chalota f
- escalonia f
Further reading
- “cebolla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014