ballenato

Spanish

Etymology

From ballena + -ato.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baʝeˈnato/ [ba.ʝeˈna.t̪o]

• IPA^(key): /baʝeˈnato/ [ba.ʝeˈna.t̪o] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /baʎeˈnato/ [ba.ʎeˈna.t̪o] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /baʃeˈnato/ [ba.ʃeˈna.t̪o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /baʒeˈnato/ [ba.ʒeˈna.t̪o] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /baeˈnato/ [ba.eˈna.t̪o] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ba‧lle‧na‧to

Noun

ballenato m (plural ballenatos)

1. whale calf

Further reading

• “ballenato”, 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