trasmallo
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Aragonese trasmallo, itself from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with English trammel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾasˈmaʝo/ [t̪ɾazˈma.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /tɾasˈmaʎo/ [t̪ɾazˈma.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /tɾasˈmaʃo/ [t̪ɾazˈma.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /tɾasˈmaʒo/ [t̪ɾazˈma.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -aʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -aʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: tras‧ma‧llo
Noun
trasmallo m (plural trasmallos)
- drift net (very long fishing net)
- 2016 October 14, “Alarma en puerto de Anconcito por el asalto a lanchas”, in El Universo[1]:
- Versiones de los pescadores indican que sujetos a bordo de lanchas rápidas los amedrentaron, hicieron disparos al aire, los insultaron y los despojaron de fibras, trasmallos e implementos de trabajo.
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Further reading
- “trasmallo”, 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