canillera

Spanish

Etymology

From canilla +‎ -era.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaniˈʝeɾa/ [ka.niˈʝe.ɾa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /kaniˈʎeɾa/ [ka.niˈʎe.ɾa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /kaniˈʃeɾa/ [ka.niˈʃe.ɾa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /kaniˈʒeɾa/ [ka.niˈʒe.ɾa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Audio (Costa Rica): (file)
Rhymes: -eɾa
Syllabification: ca‧ni‧lle‧ra

Noun

canillera f (plural canilleras)

shinpad
(Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic) tremble, shiver of the legs, especially due to fear

Further reading

“canillero”, 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
“canillera”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010