alfilerillo
English
Etymology
From Spanish alfilerillo.
Noun
alfilerillo
- Alternative form of alfilaria.
- Machaonia woodburyana, a plant in the family Rubiaceae.
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alfileˈɾiʝo/ [al.fi.leˈɾi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /alfileˈɾiʎo/ [al.fi.leˈɾi.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /alfileˈɾiʃo/ [al.fi.leˈɾi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /alfileˈɾiʒo/ [al.fi.leˈɾi.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: al‧fi‧le‧ri‧llo
Noun
alfilerillo m (plural alfilerillos)
Descendants
- → English: alfilerillo
Further reading
- “alfilerillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025