tortillera

French

Verb

tortillera

1. third-person singular simple future of tortiller

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /toɾtiˈʝeɾa/ [t̪oɾ.t̪iˈʝe.ɾa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /toɾtiˈʝeɾa/ [t̪oɾ.t̪iˈʝe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /toɾtiˈʎeɾa/ [t̪oɾ.t̪iˈʎe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /toɾtiˈʃeɾa/ [t̪oɾ.t̪iˈʃe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /toɾtiˈʒeɾa/ [t̪oɾ.t̪iˈʒe.ɾa]

• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: tor‧ti‧lle‧ra

Noun

tortillera f (plural tortilleras)

1. female equivalent of tortillero
2. a press for flattening out tortillas
3. (colloquial, derogatory, Argentina, Panama, Spain) dyke

   Synonyms: torta (Argentina), arepera, sopaipillera (Chile)

Adjective

tortillera f

1. feminine singular of tortillero

Further reading

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