estribillo

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish estribo

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin -ellus

Old Spanish -iello

Spanish -illo

Spanish estribillo

From estribo + -illo. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “semantic motivation”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /estɾiˈbiʝo/ [es.t̪ɾiˈβ̞i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /estɾiˈbiʝo/ [es.t̪ɾiˈβ̞i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /estɾiˈbiʎo/ [es.t̪ɾiˈβ̞i.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /estɾiˈbiʃo/ [es.t̪ɾiˈβ̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /estɾiˈbiʒo/ [es.t̪ɾiˈβ̞i.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /estɾiˈbio/ [es.t̪ɾiˈβ̞i.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: es‧tri‧bi‧llo

Noun

estribillo m (plural estribillos)

1. refrain, chorus

   Synonym: refrán

2. saying

   Synonym: refrán

Further reading

• “estribillo”, 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