polluelo
Spanish
Etymology
From pollo (“chick, chicken”) + -uelo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈʝwelo/ [poˈʝwe.lo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /poˈʎwelo/ [poˈʎwe.lo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /poˈʃwelo/ [poˈʃwe.lo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /poˈʒwelo/ [poˈʒwe.lo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -elo
- Syllabification: po‧llue‧lo
Noun
polluelo m (plural polluelos, feminine polluela, feminine plural polluelas)
- chick (young bird)
- Synonym: pollito
- fledgling (young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flight)
Further reading
- “polluelo”, 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