quiniela

• quinella

From Spanish quiniela.

quiniela (plural quinielas)

1. (gambling) A kind of bet in which the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted, but (unlike a perfecta) not necessarily in the correct order.

• aquiline

Latin American/American Spanish, diminutive of quina (“double five”).

• IPA^(key): /kiˈnjela/ [kiˈnje.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: qui‧nie‧la

quiniela f (plural quinielas)

1. a sporting bet or pool

   Voy a echar la quiniela.

   I'm going to play the pools.

2. any game for five people

• “quiniela”, 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