cuatrillo

From Spanish cuatrillo.

cuatrillo

1. An obsolete letter (Ꜭ, ꜭ) shaped like a 4 with a hook, used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective.

• tresillo

• cuartillo

From cuatro (“four”) +‎ -illo.

cuatrillo m (plural cuatrillos)

1. an obsolete letter shaped like a 4 with a hook from colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective

• tresillo

• “cuatrillo”, 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