lotería

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lotería f (plural loterías)

1. lottery

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “lotería”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Borrowed from French loterie, from Middle Dutch loterie, from the same root as Old English hlot (whence English lot).

• IPA^(key): /loteˈɾia/ [lo.t̪eˈɾi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: lo‧te‧rí‧a

lotería f (plural loterías)

1. lottery
2. a traditional Mexican game of chance, similar to bingo, but using images on a deck of cards instead of numbered ping pong balls

• “lotería”, 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