cantadito
Spanish
Etymology
From cantado (“sung”) + -ito.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kantaˈdito/ [kãn̪.t̪aˈð̞i.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: can‧ta‧di‧to
Noun
cantadito m (plural cantaditos)
- (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Ecuador) accent (The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language.)
Further reading
- “cantadito”, 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
- “cantadito”, 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