gentillal
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xentiˈʝal/ [xẽn̪.t̪iˈʝal] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /xentiˈʎal/ [xẽn̪.t̪iˈʎal] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /xentiˈʃal/ [xẽn̪.t̪iˈʃal] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /xentiˈʒal/ [xẽn̪.t̪iˈʒal] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Costa Rica): (file) - Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: gen‧ti‧llal
Noun
gentillal m (plural gentillales)
- (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, northeastern Costa Rica, Paraguay) throng; crowd
Further reading
- “gentillal”, 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
- “gentillal”, 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