portillo
See also: Portillo
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poɾˈtiʝo/ [poɾˈt̪i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /poɾˈtiʎo/ [poɾˈt̪i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /poɾˈtiʃo/ [poɾˈt̪i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /poɾˈtiʒo/ [poɾˈt̪i.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: por‧ti‧llo
Noun
portillo m (plural portillos)
- gate
- 2015 September 16, “Una triple crisis europea”, in El País[1]:
- Decenas de miles de personas se hallan deambulando entre Grecia y los Balcanes a la espera de encontrar el portillo hacia un país que les acepte como asilados.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “portillo”, 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