cremallera
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French crémaillère. Doublet of clemàstecs (“trammel”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
cremallera f (plural cremalleres)
Noun
cremallera m (plural cremalleres)
- (rail transport) ellipsis of tren cremallera; rack railway
Further reading
- “cremallera”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “cremallera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “cremallera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cremallera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French crémaillère.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɾemaˈʝeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʝe.ɾa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kɾemaˈʎeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʎe.ɾa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kɾemaˈʃeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʃe.ɾa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kɾemaˈʒeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʒe.ɾa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -eɾa
- Syllabification: cre‧ma‧lle‧ra
Noun
cremallera f (plural cremalleras)
- zip fastener; zipper
- Synonym: cierre
- (mechanical engineering) rack
Interjection
cremallera
Further reading
- “cremallera”, 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
- Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “cremallera”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]