villancico

From Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌviːjanˈsiːkəʊ/, /ˌviːjanˈθiːkəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌviljənˈsikoʊ/, /ˌviljənˈθikoʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːkəʊ

villancico (plural villancicos)

1. (music, poetry) A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.
   • 2014, James Haar, editor, European Music, 1520–1640, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 447:

     The villancicos are strophic, but they tend not to extend to the many strophes of narration that were typical of the romance. A standard form for a villancico strophe is ABBA, in which the first A is called the estribillo (refrain), the Bs represent the statement of the music for the copla (stanza) twice (as copla and mudanza), and the return of the estribillo as the vuelta.

Borrowed from Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

• IPA^(key): /vil.lanˈt͡ʃi.ko/, /vi.janˈsi.ko/
• Rhymes: -iko
• Hyphenation: vil‧lan‧cì‧co

villancico m (invariable)

1. (music, poetry) villancico (traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song)

From villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: vi‧llan‧ci‧co

villancico m (plural villancicos)

1. (music, poetry) villancico (traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song)
2. (by extension, music) Christmas carol

• → English: villancico
• → Galician: vilancico
• → Portuguese: vilancico, vilhancico

• “villancico”, 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