monillo
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moˈniʝo/ [moˈni.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /moˈniʎo/ [moˈni.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /moˈniʃo/ [moˈni.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /moˈniʒo/ [moˈni.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: mo‧ni‧llo
Noun
monillo m (plural monillos)
- diminutive of mono
Further reading
- “monillo”, 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