vuelco
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbwelko/ [ˈbwel.ko]
- Rhymes: -elko
- Syllabification: vuel‧co
Etymology 1
Deverbal from volcar.
Noun
vuelco m (plural vuelcos)
- upset
- (also figuratively) turnover, turnaround, U-turn
- 2021 May 4, Carlos E. Cué, “Ayuso arrasa en Madrid”, in El País[1]:
- La izquierda fracasa en su intento de buscar un vuelco con la movilización del voto del sur.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
- a vuelco de dado
- dar un vuelco
Etymology 2
Verb
vuelco
- first-person singular present indicative of volcar
Further reading
- “vuelco”, 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