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Spanish
Etymology
From cuartel + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kwaɾteˈliʝo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kwaɾteˈliʎo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kwaɾteˈliʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kwaɾteˈliʒo/
- Syllabification: cuar‧te‧li‧llo
Noun
cuartelillo m (plural cuartelillos)
- diminutive of cuartel
2015 October 1, ““En el circo, como en la política, el secreto es el equilibrio””, in El País:Más de una vez, actuando en pueblos, la Guardia Civil nos llevó al cuartelillo: no entendían lo que hacíamos, ni aunque les mencionáramos a Bread and Puppet.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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