tezontle
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tezontle, from Nahuatl tetzontli, from tetl (“stone”) + tzontli (“head hair”).
Noun
tezontle (uncountable)
- A porous, extrusive, igneous, volcanic rock, usually reddish in colour, used extensively in construction in Mexico.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tetzontli, from tetl (“stone”) + tzontli (“head, hair”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /teˈθontle/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /teˈsontle/
- Rhymes: -ontle
- Syllabification: te‧zon‧tle
Noun
tezontle m (uncountable)
Descendants
- English: tezontle
Further reading
- “tezontle”, 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