mejillón
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese mexilhão or from Galician mexillón.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mexiˈʝon/ [me.xiˈʝõn] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /mexiˈʎon/ [me.xiˈʎõn] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /mexiˈʃon/ [me.xiˈʃõn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /mexiˈʒon/ [me.xiˈʒõn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: me‧ji‧llón
Noun
[edit]mejillón m (plural mejillones)
- mussel
- Synonym: choro
- Chilean mussel
References
[edit]- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “mejillón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “mejillón”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Portuguese
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Galician
- Spanish terms derived from Galician
- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/on
- Rhymes:Spanish/on/3 syllables
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