pajita
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From paja (“straw (stalk of a cereal plant)”) + -ita (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pajita f (plural pajitas)
- (Southern Cone, Spain) drinking straw
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita
- diminutive of paja
Further reading
[edit]- “pajita”, 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
- “pajita”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
- Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “pajita”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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