zarcillo

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Spanish

Alternative forms

çarcillo (obsolete spelling)

Etymology

From earlier cercillo, from Old Spanish cerciello, inherited from Latin circellus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /θaɾˈθiʝo/ [θaɾˈθi.ʝo]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /θaɾˈθiʎo/ [θaɾˈθi.ʎo]

IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /saɾˈsiʝo/ [saɾˈsi.ʝo]
IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Philippines) /saɾˈsiʎo/ [saɾˈsi.ʎo]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /saɾˈsiʃo/ [saɾˈsi.ʃo]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /saɾˈsiʒo/ [saɾˈsi.ʒo]

Rhymes: -iʝo
Rhymes: -iʎo
Rhymes: -iʃo
Rhymes: -iʒo

Syllabification: zar‧ci‧llo

Noun

zarcillo m (plural zarcillos)

(botany) tendril
Inca tern (Larosterna inca)
(Venezuela, Canary Islands, obsolete in Philippines) earring

Related terms

References

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1991) “zarcillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 94

Further reading

“zarcillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum‎^[2], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN

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