cursillo
Spanish
Etymology
From curso (“course”) + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuɾˈsiʝo/ [kuɾˈsi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kuɾˈsiʎo/ [kuɾˈsi.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kuɾˈsiʃo/ [kuɾˈsi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kuɾˈsiʒo/ [kuɾˈsi.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: cur‧si‧llo
Noun
cursillo m (plural cursillos)
Further reading
- “cursillo”, 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