matasellos
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of mata (“to kill”) + sellos (“stamps”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mataˈseʝos/ [ma.t̪aˈse.ʝos] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /mataˈseʎos/ [ma.t̪aˈse.ʎos] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /mataˈseʃos/ [ma.t̪aˈse.ʃos] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /mataˈseʒos/ [ma.t̪aˈse.ʒos] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: ma‧ta‧se‧llos
Noun
[edit]matasellos m (plural matasellos)
Further reading
[edit]- “matasellos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Categories:
- Spanish verb-object compounds
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/eʝos
- Rhymes:Spanish/eʝos/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/eʎos
- Rhymes:Spanish/eʎos/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/eʃos
- Rhymes:Spanish/eʃos/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/eʒos
- Rhymes:Spanish/eʒos/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns