antojito

From Spanish antojito.

antojito (plural antojitos)

1. Any of various types of snack or appetizer in Mexican cuisine, such as a torta or pambazo.
   • 2009 January 16, Marian Burros, “Penn Quarter’s International Flavor”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     At this little-plates restaurant, where tapas are called antojitos, even the salads are refreshingly different: slices of chayote topped with crumbled queso fresco and sprinkled with crushed peanuts in a hibiscus dressing.

• antojito on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• jotation

From antojo (“craving”) +‎ -ito (“diminutive suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /antoˈxito/ [ãn̪.t̪oˈxi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: an‧to‧ji‧to

antojito m (plural antojitos)

1. antojito

• “antojitos”, 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