mundillo
Spanish
Etymology
From mundo (“world”) + -illo (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /munˈdiʝo/ [mũn̪ˈd̪i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /munˈdiʎo/ [mũn̪ˈd̪i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /munˈdiʃo/ [mũn̪ˈd̪i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /munˈdiʒo/ [mũn̪ˈd̪i.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: mun‧di‧llo
Noun
mundillo m (plural mundillos)
- circle, group
- 2020 September 23, “Venganza, enredos y trapos sucios en Saint-Germain-des-Près”, in El País[1]:
- Los protagonistas son famosos en distinto grado: desde celebridades globales como Carla Bruni —exmodelo, cantante y esposa del expresidente Nicolas Sarkozy— hasta intelectuales de renombre como Bernard-Henri Lévy, conocido como BHL, o figuras del mundillo literario y editorial de la capital francesa.
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- warming pan
- pad or cushion used to make lace
- Synonym: almohadilla
- (botany) Viburnum opulus (guelder rose, water elder, snowball tree)
Further reading
- “mundillo”, 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