hornillo
Spanish
An electrical tabletop hot plate
A camp stove
Etymology
From horno + -illo (diminutive suffix); possibly corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *furnellus, from Latin furnus.[1] Compare French fourneau, Italian fornello, Catalan fornell, Galician Fornelos (toponym), Occitan fornèl, Sicilian furneddu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɾˈniʝo/ [oɾˈni.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /oɾˈniʎo/ [oɾˈni.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /oɾˈniʃo/ [oɾˈni.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /oɾˈniʒo/ [oɾˈni.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: hor‧ni‧llo
Noun
hornillo m (plural hornillos)
- hotplate
- camp stove, camping stove, portable stove (a portable stove used while camping)
- Synonyms: camping gas, hornillo portátil, hornillo de camping, (Argentina) calentador a gas
Descendants
- Portuguese: fornilho (from an older form)
References
Further reading
- “hornillo”, 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