metrallazo

Spanish

Etymology

From metralla +‎ -azo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /metɾaˈʝaθo/ [me.t̪ɾaˈʝa.θo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /metɾaˈʝaθo/ [me.t̪ɾaˈʝa.θo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /metɾaˈʎaθo/ [me.t̪ɾaˈʎa.θo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /metɾaˈʝaso/ [me.t̪ɾaˈʝa.so]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /metɾaˈʝaso/ [me.t̪ɾaˈʝa.so]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains) /metɾaˈʎaso/ [me.t̪ɾaˈʎa.so]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /metɾaˈʃaso/ [me.t̪ɾaˈʃa.so]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /metɾaˈʒaso/ [me.t̪ɾaˈʒa.so]

• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: me‧tra‧lla‧zo

Noun

metrallazo m (plural metrallazos)

1. shot from a grapeshot

Further reading

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