cenzontle
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Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈθontle/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈsontle/
- Rhymes: -ontle
- Syllabification: cen‧zon‧tle
Noun
cenzontle m (plural cenzontles)
Further reading
- “cenzontle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014