culantrillo

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish culantro

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin -ellus

Old Spanish -iello

Spanish -illo

Spanish culantrillo

From culantro + -illo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʝo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʝo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʎo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʃo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʒo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾio/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.o] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -iʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -io (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Syllabification: cu‧lan‧tri‧llo

Noun

culantrillo m (plural culantrillos)

1. Any plant of a number of species:
   1. Adiantum amplum, of Mexico and Ecuador
   2. Adiantum capillus-veneris (black maidenhair fern)
   3. Asplenium ceterach (rustyback)
   4. Lemna gibba (fat duckweed)
   5. Torilis japonica (upright hedge-parsley)

Further reading

• “culantrillo”, 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