tejolote

From Spanish tejolote.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌteɪhəˈloʊteɪ/

tejolote (plural tejolotes)

1. A stone pestle used in Mexican cuisine, often cylindrical in shape and used with a molcajete.

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl texōlōtl (“grinding stone, pestle”), from teci (“to grind maize”) + ōlōtl (“corncob”), in reference to the cylindrical shape of the pestle.

• IPA^(key): /texoˈlote/ [t̪e.xoˈlo.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: te‧jo‧lo‧te

tejolote m (plural tejolotes)

1. a stone pestle used in Mexican cuisine, often cylindrical in shape and used with a molcajete

   Synonyms: mano, pilón

• metate
• molcajete

• “tejolote”, 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
• “tejolote”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010