repollo
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈpoʝo/ [reˈpo.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /reˈpoʎo/ [reˈpo.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /reˈpoʃo/ [reˈpo.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /reˈpoʒo/ [reˈpo.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
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- Rhymes: -oʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -oʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -oʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -oʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: re‧po‧llo
Etymology 1
From re- + Latin pullus (“sprout of a plant”), or from the verb repollar, from Latin repullulō, repullulāre, from re- + pullulō.
Noun
repollo m (plural repollos)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Central Bikol: repolyo
- → Cebuano: repolyo
- → Chamorro: ripoyu
- → Hanunoo: lipuryo
- → Portuguese: repolho
- → Tagalog: repolyo
Etymology 2
Verb
repollo
- first-person singular present indicative of repollar
Further reading
- “repollo”, 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