destornillador

Spanish

Etymology

From destornillar, from desatornillar, from tornillo, from torno, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), from Proto-Indo-European *torh₂no-, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, bore, twist”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /destoɾniʝaˈdoɾ/ [d̪es.t̪oɾ.ni.ʝaˈð̞oɾ]

• IPA^(key): /destoɾniʝaˈdoɾ/ [d̪es.t̪oɾ.ni.ʝaˈð̞oɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /destoɾniʎaˈdoɾ/ [d̪es.t̪oɾ.ni.ʎaˈð̞oɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /destoɾniʃaˈdoɾ/ [d̪es.t̪oɾ.ni.ʃaˈð̞oɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /destoɾniʒaˈdoɾ/ [d̪es.t̪oɾ.ni.ʒaˈð̞oɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: des‧tor‧ni‧lla‧dor

Noun

destornillador m (plural destornilladores)

1. screwdriver (a tool used to turn screws)

   Synonym: (Mexico) desarmador

Related terms

• destornillar

Descendants

• → Tagalog: destornilyador

Further reading

• “destornillador”, 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