ovillo
See also: ovilló
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈbiʝo/ [oˈβ̞i.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /oˈbiʎo/ [oˈβ̞i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /oˈbiʃo/ [oˈβ̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /oˈbiʒo/ [oˈβ̞i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: o‧vi‧llo
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish oviello, loviello, from Late Latin lubellum < globellum, diminutive from Latin globus.
The loss of initial /l/ may be due to absorption by a preceding article (el loviello > el oviello).
Noun
ovillo m (plural ovillos)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
ovillo
- first-person singular present indicative of ovillar
References
- Penny, Ralph. 2002. A history of the Spanish language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Page 95.
Further reading
- “ovillo”, 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