sarpullido
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably from Vulgar Latin serpŭcŭlus,[1] from Latin sĕrpō (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsaɾpuˈʝido/ [ˌsaɾ.puˈʝi.ð̞o] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ˌsaɾpuˈʎido/ [ˌsaɾ.puˈʎi.ð̞o] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ˌsaɾpuˈʃido/ [ˌsaɾ.puˈʃi.ð̞o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˌsaɾpuˈʒido/ [ˌsaɾ.puˈʒi.ð̞o] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ido
- Syllabification: sar‧pu‧lli‧do
Noun
sarpullido m (plural sarpullidos)
- (colloquial) dermatitis, rash (area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin)
- Synonym: erupción
Related terms
- sarpullín
- sarpullir
References
- ^ Santiago Segura Munguía (2014), Lexicón [incompleto] etimológico y semántico del Latín y de las voces actuales que proceden de raíces latinas o griegas, Deusto Publicaciones, →ISBN, page 699
Further reading
- “sarpullido”, 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