latiguillo

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Spanish

A connection pipe
A patch cable

Etymology

From látigo (“whip”) +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /latiˈɡiʝo/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /latiˈɡiʎo/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /latiˈɡiʃo/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /latiˈɡiʒo/

 

  • Syllabification: la‧ti‧gui‧llo

Noun

latiguillo m (plural latiguillos)

  1. small tube, connection pipe
  2. small cable, patch cable, patch cord, patch lead
  3. small whip
  4. stock phrase
  5. catchphrase
  6. cliché
    • 1999 October 12, “La costosa dictablanda de Pujol”, in El País‎:
      En estas postrimerías del milenio, la máxima se ha convertido en latiguillo; y, para los feligreses del pujolismo, en dogma.
      At the end of the millennium, the maxim has become a cliché; and, for the parishioners of Pujolism, into dogma.
  7. (theater) hamming, hamming it up

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