pacotilla
Spanish
Etymology
From paca (“bale”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pakoˈtiʝa/ [pa.koˈt̪i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /pakoˈtiʎa/ [pa.koˈt̪i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /pakoˈtiʃa/ [pa.koˈt̪i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /pakoˈtiʒa/ [pa.koˈt̪i.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: pa‧co‧ti‧lla
Noun
pacotilla f (plural pacotillas)
- free luggage of a sailor
- trash, junk, garbage (something of inferior quality)
- (Latin America) mob, rabble
- (El Salvador, Nicaragua) gang
- Synonym: pandilla
Derived terms
Descendants
- French: pacotille (borrowing)
Further reading
- “pacotilla”, 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