monacillo
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Spanish monaziello, from Late Latin monachellus, diminutive of monachus (“monk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /monaˈθiʝo/ [mo.naˈθi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain)
- IPA(key): /monaˈθiʎo/ [mo.naˈθi.ʎo] (rural northern Spain)
- IPA(key): /monaˈsiʝo/ [mo.naˈsi.ʝo] (most of Latin America)
- IPA(key): /monaˈsiʎo/ [mo.naˈsi.ʎo] (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- 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: mo‧na‧ci‧llo
Noun
monacillo m (plural monacillos)
Descendants
- → Tagalog: monasilyo
References
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1985), “monje”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 128
Further reading
- “monacillo”, 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