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Spanish
Etymology
From convento + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kombenˈtiʝo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kombenˈtiʎo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kombenˈtiʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kombenˈtiʒo/
- Syllabification: con‧ven‧ti‧llo
Noun
conventillo m (plural conventillos)
- a type of collective housing
1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 224:Una viejecita alarmaba a los moradores del conventillo en que vivía, diciéndoles: alarmaba a los moradores del conventillo en que vivía, diciéndoles: «¡Salgan, salgan, que el gallo ha cantado y el temblor va a venir!»- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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