aguinaldo
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See also: Aguinaldo
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish aguinaldo.
Pronunciation
Noun
aguinaldo (countable and uncountable, plural aguinaldos)
- A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
- A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
- Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
- (Latin America) A Christmas carol.
- A song performed in this style.
- 2007 October 16, Jon Pareles, “Planting a Love Seed at the Garden”, in New York Times:
- And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.
- A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.
References
- "aguinaldo" in Collins Dictionary
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From aguilando.
Pronunciation
Noun
aguinaldo m (plural aguinaldos)
- aguinaldo (gift given at Christmas or Epiphany)
- aguinaldo (gift given on any other occasion)
- aguinaldo (Christmas carol)
- aguinaldo (tropical plant)
Descendants
Further reading
- “aguinaldo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28