mejillón
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese mexilhão or from Galician mexillón.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mexiˈʝon/ [me.xiˈʝõn] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /mexiˈʎon/ [me.xiˈʎõn] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /mexiˈʃon/ [me.xiˈʃõn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /mexiˈʒon/ [me.xiˈʒõn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: me‧ji‧llón
Noun
mejillón m (plural mejillones)
- mussel
- Synonym: choro
- Chilean mussel
References
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “mejillón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
- “mejillón”, 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