tezontle

Borrowed from Spanish tezontle, from Nahuatl tetzontli, from tetl (“stone”) + tzontli (“head hair”).

tezontle (uncountable)

1. A porous, extrusive, igneous, volcanic rock, usually reddish in colour, used extensively in construction in Mexico.

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tetzontli, from tetl (“stone”) + tzontli (“head, hair”).

• IPA^(key): /teˈθontle/ [t̪eˈθõn̪.t̪le] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /teˈsontle/ [t̪eˈsõn̪.t̪le] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ontle
• Syllabification: te‧zon‧tle

tezontle m (uncountable)

1. tezontle

• English: tezontle

• “tezontle”, 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