acial
Spanish
Etymology
From earlier aciar, from Andalusian Arabic الزِيَار (az-ziyār), from Arabic زِيَار (ziyār).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈθjal/ [aˈθjal] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /aˈsjal/ [aˈsjal] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: a‧cial
Noun
acial m (plural aciales) (farriery)
- barnacle, twitch, a kind of pincers or vise to fix the mouth of a horse or similar animals to yield the opportunity of surgery twitch
- riding crop, a short whip for goading
Further reading
- “acial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024