latiguillo
Spanish
A connection pipe
A patch cable
Etymology
From látigo (“whip”) + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /latiˈɡiʝo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /latiˈɡiʎo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /latiˈɡiʃo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /latiˈɡiʒo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.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: la‧ti‧gui‧llo
Noun
latiguillo m (plural latiguillos)
- small tube, connection pipe
- small cable, patch cable, patch cord, patch lead
- small whip
- stock phrase
- catchphrase
- cliché
- 1999 October 12, “La costosa dictablanda de Pujol”, in El País[1]:
- En estas postrimerías del milenio, la máxima se ha convertido en latiguillo; y, para los feligreses del pujolismo, en dogma.
- At the end of the millennium, the maxim has become a cliché; and, for the parishioners of Pujolism, into dogma.
- (theater) hamming, hamming it up
See also
Further reading
- “latiguillo”, 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