cuello

See also: Cuello

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin collum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎo/
• Syllabification: cue‧llo
• Rhymes: -eʎo

Noun

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cuello”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish cuello (“neck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎo/, [ˈkwe.ʎo]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎu/, [ˈkwe.ʎu] (Ternateño)
• Hyphenation: cue‧llo

Noun

cuello

1. collar

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin collum.

Cognate with Old French col and Old Galician-Portuguese colo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎo/

Noun

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r. a:

     Corrio eſau aencuẽtro de ſo ermano. E abraçol & echo ſobre ſo cuello el braço.

     Esau ran to meet with his brother, then he hugged him and put his arm over his neck.

   • Idem, f. 61r. a.

     Eſtas palabras hyua diziendo por la uilla de ih̃r̃l̃m e yua cõ la cadena enel cuello

     He said these words throughout the city of Jerusalem while walking with the chain around his neck

Descendants

• Ladino: kueyo / קואילייו
• Spanish: cuello (see there for further descendants)

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.?

Latin collum

Old Spanish cuello

Spanish cuello

Inherited from Old Spanish cuello, from Latin collum.

Cognate with English collar, French cou, Italian collo, Galician and Portuguese colo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʝo/ [ˈkwe.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʝo/ [ˈkwe.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎo/ [ˈkwe.ʎo] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʃo/ [ˈkwe.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʒo/ [ˈkwe.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -eʝo

• Rhymes: -eʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -eʎo (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: cue‧llo

Noun

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck (part of body connecting the head and the torso)
2. collar (part of a shirt fitting around the neck)

Derived terms

• a voz en cuello
• acollar
• alzacuello
• collalba
• con el agua al cuello
• cuelliblanco
• cuelligrís
• cuellilargo
• cuellinegro
• cuellirrojo
• cuello alto
• cuello de botella
• cuello de cisne
• cuello de pajarita
• cuello del útero
• cuello uterino
• cuello vuelto
• hasta el cuello
• levantar el cuello
• meter cuello
• tiracuello

Related terms

• collar

Descendants

• → Central Bikol: kuwelyo
• → Cebuano: kwelyo
• → Tagalog: kuwelyo

See also

• cogote

Further reading

• “cuello”, 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