cenzontle
Spanish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /θenˈθontle/ [θẽn̟ˈθõn̪.t̪le] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /senˈsontle/ [sẽnˈsõn̪.t̪le] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ontle
- Syllabification: cen‧zon‧tle
Noun
[edit]cenzontle m (plural cenzontles)
Further reading
[edit]- “cenzontle”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ontle
- Rhymes:Spanish/ontle/3 syllables
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- Spanish nouns
- Spanish terms spelled with TL
- Spanish countable nouns
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