repollo

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /reˈpoʝo/ [reˈpo.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /reˈpoʎo/ [reˈpo.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /reˈpoʃo/ [reˈpo.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /reˈpoʒo/ [reˈpo.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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Rhymes: -oʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
Rhymes: -oʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
Rhymes: -oʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
Rhymes: -oʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Syllabification: re‧po‧llo

Etymology 1

From re- + Latin pullus (“sprout of a plant”), or from the verb repollar, from Latin repullulō, repullulāre, from re- + pullulō.

Noun

repollo m (plural repollos)

cabbage
Synonyms: col, berza

Derived terms

repollo chino

Descendants

→ Bikol Central: repolyo
→ Cebuano: repolyo
→ Portuguese: repolho
→ Tagalog: repolyo

Etymology 2

Verb

repollo

first-person singular present indicative of repollar

Further reading

“repollo”, 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