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Spanish
Etymology
From coleta + -illa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /koleˈtiʝa/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /koleˈtiʎa/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /koleˈtiʃa/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koleˈtiʒa/
- Syllabification: co‧le‧ti‧lla
Noun
coletilla f (plural coletillas)
- stock phrase
2015 September 23, “La europea”, in El País:A esa comunidad de estudiosos de discursos de Rajoy, entre los que me cuento con el mismo orgullo que un fabricante de calcetines en la feria anual de Tampa, nos llamó la atención la coletilla de la frase (“no lleva a parte alguna”) porque es habitual.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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