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Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish diablito.
Noun
diablito
- hand truck
References
- Aguilar Feria, Martimiana, García Rojas, Vicente, Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 29
Spanish
Etymology
From diablo + -ito.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /djaˈblito/
- Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: dia‧bli‧to
Noun
diablito m (plural diablitos, feminine diablita, feminine plural diablitas)
- diminutive of diablo
- Synonym: diablillo
- (Mexico) hand truck
- Synonyms: (Mexico) diablo de carga, (Mexico) diablito de carga, carro de carga, carretilla de carga, carro de mano, carretilla de mano, carro, carrucha
- (Mexico) crowbar, wrecking bar, jemmy, jimmy, prybar, pinchbar, nail bar
- Synonyms: (Mexico) diablo, pie de cabra, pata de cabra, barreta, palanca
- the bronze mannikin, Lonchura cucullata
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “diablito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- “diablito”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
- “diablito”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019