sietillo

Spanish

Etymology

From siete (“seven”) +‎ -illo, literally “little seven”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sjeˈtiʝo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /sjeˈtiʝo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /sjeˈtiʎo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /sjeˈtiʃo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /sjeˈtiʒo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /sjeˈtio/ [sjeˈt̪i.o] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -iʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -io (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Syllabification: sie‧ti‧llo

Noun

sietillo m (plural sietillos, feminine sietilla, feminine plural sietillas)

1. (informal, Honduras, El Salvador) a premature; an infant born prematurely, especially at seven months of pregnancy.

Further reading

• “sietillo”, 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
• “sietillo”, 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