botillo

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Etymology

Borrowed from Asturian botiellu, from Latin botellus. For the unexpected retention of Latin /-t-/, Coromines & Pascual propose influence from botija (“vessel”) and other such words.[1] Cognate with Asturian botiellu, Galician botelo and Portuguese butelo.

a piece of botillo

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /boˈtiʝo/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /boˈtiʎo/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /boˈtiʃo/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /boˈtiʒo/

 

  • Syllabification: bo‧ti‧llo

Noun

botillo m (plural botillos)

  1. (Asturias, Cantabria, Leon, Palencia, Zamora) a cured meat dish, made from bits of pig meat stuffed inside a pig's cecum
    Synonym: botillo del Bierzo

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “botiellu”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 643

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