tobillero
Spanish
Etymology
From tobillo (“ankle”) + -ero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tobiˈʝeɾo/ [t̪o.β̞iˈʝe.ɾo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /tobiˈʎeɾo/ [t̪o.β̞iˈʎe.ɾo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /tobiˈʃeɾo/ [t̪o.β̞iˈʃe.ɾo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /tobiˈʒeɾo/ [t̪o.β̞iˈʒe.ɾo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: to‧bi‧lle‧ro
Adjective
tobillero (feminine tobillera, masculine plural tobilleros, feminine plural tobilleras)
- ankle-high
Noun
tobillero m (plural tobilleros)
- ankle sock
- 2017 December 19, “Modas que seguirán el próximo 2018”, in La Prensa[1]:
- pierna y tobilleros.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “tobillero”, 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