hullero

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

French houillebor.

Spanish hulla

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Spanish -ero

Spanish hullero

From hulla + -ero.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /uˈʝeɾo/ [uˈʝe.ɾo]

• IPA^(key): /uˈʝeɾo/ [uˈʝe.ɾo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /uˈʎeɾo/ [uˈʎe.ɾo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /uˈʃeɾo/ [uˈʃe.ɾo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /uˈʒeɾo/ [uˈʒe.ɾo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /uˈeɾo/ [uˈe.ɾo] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: hu‧lle‧ro

Adjective

hullero (feminine hullera, masculine plural hulleros, feminine plural hulleras)

1. (relational) bituminous coal

Further reading

• “hullero”, 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