ladrillo

Galician

Alternative forms

• ladrilho (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Spanish ladrillo, from a diminutive form of Latin later. Compare Portuguese ladrilho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈðɾiʎo̝/

Noun

ladrillo m (plural ladrillos)

1. (construction) brick
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 445:

     cinco mil ladrillos ben cozidos e de boo barro

     five thousand bricks, correctly fired and made of good clay

References

• “ladrillo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ladrillo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ladrillo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ladrillo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ladrillo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish ladriello, a diminutive of Latin later.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /laˈdɾiʝo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /laˈdɾiʝo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /laˈdɾiʎo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /laˈdɾiʃo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /laˈdɾiʒo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʒo]

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• 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: la‧dri‧llo

Noun

ladrillo m (plural ladrillos)

1. brick

   Synonym: tocho

Derived terms

• ladrillazo
• ladrillo caravista

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: ladrilho

Further reading

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