corrillo
Spanish
Etymology
From corro (“circle”) + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈriʝo/ [koˈri.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /koˈriʎo/ [koˈri.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /koˈriʃo/ [koˈri.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /koˈriʒo/ [koˈri.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: co‧rri‧llo
Noun
corrillo m (plural corrillos)
- small group, subgroup
- 2017 September 25, Gregorio Belinchón, “Antonio Banderas: “Lo de Cataluña es un animal extraño, parece una película de Berlanga””, in El País[1], Madrid, →ISSN:
- Un discurso templado, medido, que luego ha desarrollado en un corrillo con periodistas con una voz gastada por su viaje relámpago desde Sudáfrica, donde está rodando una película.
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- (also derogatory) clique
Further reading
- “corrillo”, 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