cuatrillo

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Etymology

From Spanish cuatrillo.

Noun

cuatrillo

1. An obsolete letter (Ꜭ, ꜭ) shaped like a 4 with a hook, used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective.

See also

• tresillo

Anagrams

• cuartillo

Spanish

Etymology

From cuatro (“four”) +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kwaˈtɾiʝo/ [kwaˈt̪ɾi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /kwaˈtɾiʝo/ [kwaˈt̪ɾi.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /kwaˈtɾiʎo/ [kwaˈt̪ɾi.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kwaˈtɾiʃo/ [kwaˈt̪ɾi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kwaˈtɾiʒo/ [kwaˈt̪ɾi.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• 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: cua‧tri‧llo

Noun

cuatrillo m (plural cuatrillos)

1. an obsolete letter shaped like a 4 with a hook from colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective

See also

• tresillo

Further reading

• “cuatrillo”, 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