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Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From Old Spanish ladrillo, from a diminutive form of Latin later. Compare Portuguese ladrilho.
Pronunciation
Noun
ladrillo m (plural ladrillos)
- (construction) brick
1484, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 445:cinco mil ladrillos ben cozidos e de boo barro- five thousand bricks, correctly fired and made of good clay
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ladrillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ladrillo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ladrillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ladrillo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ladrillo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish ladriello, a diminutive of Latin later.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /laˈdɾiʝo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /laˈdɾiʎo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /laˈdɾiʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /laˈdɾiʒo/
- Syllabification: la‧dri‧llo
Noun
ladrillo m (plural ladrillos)
- brick
- Synonym: tocho
Derived terms
Descendants
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