esquela

Borrowed from Spanish esquela.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əsˈkɛ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əsˈke.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈkɛ.la]

esquela f (plural esqueles)

1. announcement
2. death announcement, obituary

   Synonyms: esquela mortuòria, necrologia

• “esquela”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Latin scheda (“piece of paper”), either borrowed directly or perhaps via Italian scheda, with Spanish speakers attempting to approximate the [-d-] with their own [-l-]. First documented in early modern Spanish.

• IPA^(key): /esˈkela/ [esˈke.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: es‧que‧la

esquela f (plural esquelas)

1. note, letter
2. death announcement, funeral announcement

• “esquela”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

• “esquela”, 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
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “esquela”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 756