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Spanish
Etymology
From earlier cercillo, from Old Spanish cerciello, inherited from Latin circellus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain) /θaɾˈθiʝo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain) /θaɾˈθiʎo/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /saɾˈsiʝo/
- IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /saɾˈsiʝo/
- IPA(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /saɾˈsiʎo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /saɾˈsiʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /saɾˈsiʒo/
- Syllabification: zar‧ci‧llo
Noun
zarcillo m (plural zarcillos)
- (botany) tendril
- Inca tern (Larosterna inca)
- (Venezuela, Canary Islands, obsolete in Philippines) earring
References
Further reading
- “zarcillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN