ahorita
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ahora (“now”) + -ita (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aoˈɾita/ [a.oˈɾi.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -ita
- Syllabification: a‧ho‧ri‧ta
Adverb
ahorita
- (colloquial) diminutive of ahora: now, right now
- (colloquial, Latin America) later
- (colloquial, Caribbean) earlier
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ahorita”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010