comidilla

Spanish

Etymology

From comida +‎ -illa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /komiˈdiʝa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /komiˈdiʝa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /komiˈdiʎa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /komiˈdiʃa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /komiˈdiʒa/ [ko.miˈð̞i.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: co‧mi‧di‧lla

Noun

comidilla f (plural comidillas)

1. Diminutive of comida, an unappealing food, soylent
2. talk of the town
   • 2020 September 23, “Venganza, enredos y trapos sucios en Saint-Germain-des-Près”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Todos desfilan como personajes levemente disimulados en la novela que es la comidilla de los cenáculos parisinos, motivo ya de una demanda judicial y de una ruptura familiar: […]

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Derived terms

• comidilla de la boda

 

Further reading

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