comilla
Spanish
Etymology
From coma (“comma”) + -illa (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈmiʝa/ [koˈmi.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /koˈmiʎa/ [koˈmi.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /koˈmiʃa/ [koˈmi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /koˈmiʒa/ [koˈmi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: co‧mi‧lla
Noun
comilla f (plural comillas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “comillas”, 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