aullido

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish aullar

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Latin -itusder.

Spanish -ido

Spanish aullido

From aullar + -ido.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /auˈʝido/ [au̯ˈʝi.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): /auˈʝido/ [au̯ˈʝi.ð̞o] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /auˈʎido/ [au̯ˈʎi.ð̞o] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /auˈʃido/ [au̯ˈʃi.ð̞o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /auˈʒido/ [au̯ˈʒi.ð̞o] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /auˈido/ [au̯ˈi.ð̞o] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: au‧lli‧do

Noun

aullido m (plural aullidos)

1. howl, howling, ook, yip, yelp, yap
   • Graffiti written by Anonymous on a wall of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, MX.

     Mi ciudad es un negro lamento, un aullido infinito.

     My city is a black lament, an infinite howl.

See also

• maullido

Further reading

• “aullido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025