gargantilla

Spanish

Etymology

From garganta +‎ -illa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾɡanˈtiʝa/ [ɡaɾ.ɣ̞ãn̪ˈt̪i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾɡanˈtiʝa/ [ɡaɾ.ɣ̞ãn̪ˈt̪i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾɡanˈtiʎa/ [ɡaɾ.ɣ̞ãn̪ˈt̪i.ʎa] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾɡanˈtiʃa/ [ɡaɾ.ɣ̞ãn̪ˈt̪i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾɡanˈtiʒa/ [ɡaɾ.ɣ̞ãn̪ˈt̪i.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

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

• Syllabification: gar‧gan‧ti‧lla

Noun

gargantilla f (plural gargantillas)

1. choker (necklace)
   • 2015 July 18, “Las joyas dulces de Natalia Granada”, in El País‎^[1]:

     La seda de India es la materia prima de las gargantillas de la serie Flor salvaje formadas por cordones cosidos a mano y rematados con botones antiguos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: gargantilha

Further reading

• “gargantillo”, 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