tordillo
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tordylion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toɾˈdiʝo/ [t̪oɾˈð̞i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /toɾˈdiʎo/ [t̪oɾˈð̞i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /toɾˈdiʃo/ [t̪oɾˈð̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /toɾˈdiʒo/ [t̪oɾˈð̞i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: tor‧di‧llo
Noun
tordillo m (plural tordillos)
Further reading
- “tordillo”, 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