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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin columellus (“canine tooth, tusk”) (attested in Isidore of Seville), masculine variant of columella (literally “small column, pillar”), diminutive of columna (“column”). Used Classically to refer to the grinding teeth of horses in Varro and Pliny in the form columellārēs dentēs (literally “pillar-formed teeth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kolˈmiʝo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kolˈmiʎo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kolˈmiʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kolˈmiʒo/
- Syllabification: col‧mi‧llo
Noun
colmillo m (plural colmillos)
- (teeth) canine tooth
- tusk, fang
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