seguidilla
English
Etymology
From Spanish seguidilla.
Noun
seguidilla (plural seguidillas)
- A lively Spanish dance in triple time.
- The music for this dance.
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish seguidilla.
Noun
seguidilla f (plural seguidilla)
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
- seguidilla in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
From seguida (“sequence”) + -illa (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seɡiˈdiʝa/ [se.ɣ̞iˈð̞i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /seɡiˈdiʎa/ [se.ɣ̞iˈð̞i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /seɡiˈdiʃa/ [se.ɣ̞iˈð̞i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /seɡiˈdiʒa/ [se.ɣ̞iˈð̞i.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: se‧gui‧di‧lla
Noun
seguidilla f (plural seguidillas)
- series, sequence, list (a set of related things in an order)
- seguidilla (a lively, triple-time, Spanish tune and dance)
- (Philippines) winged bean
Descendants
- → English: seguidilla
- → Italian: seghidiglia
- → Romanian: seguidilla
- → Tagalog: sigarilyas
Further reading
- “seguidilla”, 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