hornillo

Spanish

An electrical tabletop hot plate

A camp stove

Etymology

From horno +‎ -illo (diminutive suffix); possibly corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *furnellus, from Latin furnus. Compare French fourneau, Italian fornello, Catalan fornell, Galician Fornelos (toponym), Occitan fornèl, Sicilian furneddu.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oɾˈniʝo/ [oɾˈni.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /oɾˈniʝo/ [oɾˈni.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /oɾˈniʎo/ [oɾˈni.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /oɾˈniʃo/ [oɾˈni.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /oɾˈniʒo/ [oɾˈni.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: hor‧ni‧llo

Noun

hornillo m (plural hornillos)

1. hotplate
2. camp stove, camping stove, portable stove (a portable stove used while camping)

   Synonyms: camping gas, hornillo portátil, hornillo de camping, (Argentina) calentador a gas

Descendants

• Portuguese: fornilho (from an older form)

Further reading

• “hornillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014