canastillo
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish canastiello, from Latin canistellum, diminutive of canistrum. Equivalent to canasto (“basket”) + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kanasˈtiʝo/ [ka.nasˈt̪i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kanasˈtiʎo/ [ka.nasˈt̪i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kanasˈtiʃo/ [ka.nasˈt̪i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kanasˈtiʒo/ [ka.nasˈt̪i.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: ca‧nas‧ti‧llo
Noun
canastillo m (plural canastillos)
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: canistel (from a dialectal variant)
Further reading
- “canastillo”, 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