cebolla

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cēpulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa.

Noun

cebolla f (plural cebolles)

1. onion (a monocotyledonous plant of genus Allium allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.)

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cēpullam, accusative of cēpulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡seˈboʎa/

Noun

cebolla f (plural cebollas)

1. onion
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 65r.

     Et a tal propriedat que ſi la meten en çumo de cebollas, pierde aquella uertud que dixiemos que a de quaiar el argent uiuo.

     And its property is such that if it is placed in onion juice, it loses the virtue we said it has, which is setting quicksilver.

Descendants

• Spanish: cebolla

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Spanish

Cebollas

Etymology

From Old Spanish cebolla, from Late Latin cēpulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa, whence English chive (via French).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈboʝa/, [θeˈβ̞o.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /θeˈboʝa/, [θeˈβ̞o.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /θeˈboʎa/, [θeˈβ̞o.ʎa]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈboʝa/, [seˈβ̞o.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /seˈboʝa/, [seˈβ̞o.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains) /seˈboʎa/, [seˈβ̞o.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /seˈboʃa/, [seˈβ̞o.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /seˈboʒa/, [seˈβ̞o.ʒa]

Noun

cebolla f (plural cebollas)

1. onion

Derived terms

• cebolla albarrana
• cebolla de verdeo
• cebolla escalonia
• cebollana
• cebollazo
• cebolleta
• cebollín
• cebollina
• cebollino
• cebollita
• horca de cebollas
• papel cebolla
• tela de cebolla

 

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: sebolyas
• → Brooke's Point Palawano: sibuyas
• → Cebuano: sibuyas
• → Central Sierra Miwok: siwo·ja-
• → Chamicuro: sewoyo
• → Kapampangan: sibuyas
• → Ladino: sevoya
• → Quechua: siwulla
• → Tagalog: sibuyas

See also

• chalota f
• escalonia f

Further reading

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