comidilla
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komiˈdiʝa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /komiˈdiʎa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /komiˈdiʃa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /komiˈdiʒa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: co‧mi‧di‧lla
Noun
comidilla f (plural comidillas)
- diminutive of comida, an unappealing food, soylent
- talk of the town
- 2020 September 23, “Venganza, enredos y trapos sucios en Saint-Germain-des-Près”, in El País[1]:
- Todos desfilan como personajes levemente disimulados en la novela que es la comidilla de los cenáculos parisinos, motivo ya de una demanda judicial y de una ruptura familiar: […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
- comidilla de la boda
Further reading
- “comidilla”, 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