melliza

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /meˈʝiθa/ [meˈʝi.θa] (Spain)

• IPA^(key): /meˈʝiθa/ [meˈʝi.θa] (most of Spain)
• IPA^(key): /meˈʎiθa/ [meˈʎi.θa] (rural northern Spain)

 

• IPA^(key): /meˈʝisa/ [meˈʝi.sa] (Latin America)

• IPA^(key): /meˈʝisa/ [meˈʝi.sa] (most of Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /meˈʎisa/ [meˈʎi.sa] (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)

 

• IPA^(key): /meˈʃisa/ [meˈʃi.sa] (Latin America)

• IPA^(key): /meˈʃisa/ [meˈʃi.sa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /meˈʒisa/ [meˈʒi.sa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -iθa (Spain)
• Rhymes: -isa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: me‧lli‧za

Noun

melliza f (plural mellizas)

1. female equivalent of mellizo, fraternal twin sister

Adjective

melliza f

1. feminine singular of mellizo

Further reading

• “melliza”, 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