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Spanish
Etymology
From costilla + -ita.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kostiˈʝita/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kostiˈʎita/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kostiˈʃita/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kostiˈʒita/
- Rhymes: -ita
- Syllabification: cos‧ti‧lli‧ta
Noun
costillita f (plural costillitas)
- diminutive of costilla
2015 October 4, “Corazones que piensan”, in El País:Por cierto que ofrecen un dato espeluznante: según una encuesta Gallup de 2012, el 42% de los estadounidenses están convencidos de que Dios creó al ser humano tal y como viene en la Biblia, de golpe y de la nada, ya saben, el cuento del barro y de la costillita, y que todo esto sucedió hace exactamente 10.000 años.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)