cock-tail

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoɡtel/ [ˈkoɣ̞.t̪el], /ˈkoɡteil/ [ˈkoɣ̞.t̪ei̯l]
    • Rhymes: -oɡtel, -oɡteil
  • IPA(key): /koɡˈtel/ [koɣ̞ˈt̪el]
    • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: cock-tail

Noun

cock-tail m (plural cock-tails)

  1. alternative spelling of cocktail

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “cock-tail”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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