repollo

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʝo/ [reˈpo.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʝo/ [reˈpo.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʎo/ [reˈpo.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʃo/ [reˈpo.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʒo/ [reˈpo.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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• Rhymes: -oʝo

• Rhymes: -oʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -oʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -oʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: re‧po‧llo

Etymology 1

From re- + Latin pullus (“sprout of a plant”), or from the verb repollar, from Latin repullulō, repullulāre, from re- + pullulō.

Noun

repollo m (plural repollos)

1. cabbage

   Synonyms: col, berza

Derived terms

• repollar
• repollo chino
• repolludo

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: repolyo
• → Cebuano: repolyo
• → Chamorro: ripoyu
• → Hanunoo: lipuryo
• → Portuguese: repolho
• → Tagalog: repolyo

Etymology 2

Verb

repollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of repollar

Further reading

• “repollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025