botijo
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish botijo, from Spanish botija, from Vulgar Latin *buticula[1] (or from Late Latin butticula,[2] with attestation difficult to locate), from Vulgar Latin buttis (or LL.[3]).
Noun[edit]
botijo (plural botijos)
- A traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.
References[edit]
- ^ Etymology and history of “bouteille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “botija”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- ^ idem.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From botija.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
botijo m (plural botijos)
- botijo
- c. 1907, Luis Bonafoux, Gotas de sangre: crímenes y criminales:
- Al paso que van, no dudo que habrá que establecer trenes botijos para presidiarios reconocidos inocentes, después de haber pasado un cuarto de siglo trabajando bajo un sol que no alumbra
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: botijo
Further reading[edit]
- “botijo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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