guillotina
See also: guillotiná
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: guillotinas, guillotinât
Verb
guillotina
- third-person singular past historic of guillotiner
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡiʝoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʝoˈt̪i.na] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ɡiʎoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʎoˈt̪i.na] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ɡiʃoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʃoˈt̪i.na] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ɡiʒoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʒoˈt̪i.na] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: gui‧llo‧ti‧na
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French guillotine, from the surname of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.
Noun
guillotina f (plural guillotinas)
Derived terms
- guillotinar (verb)
Etymology 2
Verb
guillotina
- inflection of guillotinar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “guillotina”, 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