cartilla

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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cartilla.

Noun

cartilla

  1. card, book

Galician

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɾˈtiɟa/
  • Rhymes: -iɟa
  • Hyphenation: car‧ti‧lla

Noun

cartilla f (plural cartillas)

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Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

From carta +‎ -illa.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaɾˈtiʝa/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kaɾˈtiʎa/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaɾˈtiʃa/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaɾˈtiʒa/

 

  • Syllabification: car‧ti‧lla

Noun

cartilla f (plural cartillas)

  1. diminutive of carta; small card or small letter
    • 2020 July 28, “Madrid se protege ante una segunda ola: mascarillas obligatorias y ‘cartilla covid-19′”, in El País‎:
      Ayuso ha anunciado también la puesta en marcha de un proyecto experimental que pretende estar listo en septiembre. Se trata de una cartilla covid-19, que simula a la cartilla de vacunación internacional y que estará incorporada en la tarjeta sanitaria virtual de todos los madrileños.
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  2. primer, first reader
    • 1903, Godofredo Daireaux, “El maestro de escuela”, in Tipos y paisajes criollos - Serie IV:
      Y don Anselmo empezó, sin ganas, a desasnar a los tres hijos de don Tomás, paisanitos de fecunda e ingeniosa travesura, y a tratar de hacerles comprender, a razón de tres horas por día y de veinte pesos al mes, y la tumba, las complicadas reglas de la aritmética y las arduas bellezas de la cartilla primera.
      And Mr. Anselmo began, reluctantly, to civilize the three children of Mr. Tomás, little countrymen of fertile and ingenious mischief, and to try to make them understand, at a rate of three hours a day and twenty pesos a month, and the grave, the complicated rules of arithmetic and the arduous beauties of the primer.
  3. leaflet, pamphlet
  4. card, book

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: cartilha

Further reading

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