colleja
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈʝexa/ [koˈʝe.xa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /koˈʎexa/ [koˈʎe.xa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /koˈʃexa/ [koˈʃe.xa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /koˈʒexa/ [koˈʒe.xa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -exa
- Syllabification: co‧lle‧ja
Etymology 1
Inherited from Vulgar Latin caulicla < *caulicula, from Latin cauliculus.
Noun
colleja f (plural collejas)
Etymology 2
From cuello.
Noun
colleja f (plural collejas)
Further reading
- “colleja”, 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