quillo
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkiʝo/ [ˈki.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ˈkiʎo/ [ˈki.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ˈkiʃo/ [ˈki.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˈkiʒo/ [ˈki.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: qui‧llo
Contraction
quillo
- (colloquial, Andalusia, Cádiz) contraction of chiquillo (a term of endearment for a young person); often used as an interjection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “quillo”, 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