trotacalles
Spanish
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of trota (“to trot”) + calles (“streets”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾotaˈkaʝes/ [t̪ɾo.t̪aˈka.ʝes] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /tɾotaˈkaʎes/ [t̪ɾo.t̪aˈka.ʎes] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /tɾotaˈkaʃes/ [t̪ɾo.t̪aˈka.ʃes] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /tɾotaˈkaʒes/ [t̪ɾo.t̪aˈka.ʒes] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aʝes (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -aʎes (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aʃes (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -aʒes (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: tro‧ta‧ca‧lles
Noun
trotacalles m or f by sense (plural trotacalles)
- flaneur
- Synonym: azotacalles
Further reading
- “trotacalles”, 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