tejadillo

Spanish

A tejadillo (sense 2) made of corrugated metal.

Etymology

From tejado +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /texaˈdiʝo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /texaˈdiʝo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /texaˈdiʎo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /texaˈdiʃo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /texaˈdiʒo/ [t̪e.xaˈð̞i.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo
• Rhymes: -iʎo
• Rhymes: -iʃo
• Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: te‧ja‧di‧llo

Noun

tejadillo m (plural tejadillos)

1. diminutive of tejado
2. door canopy
3. (Basque pelota) the tiled covering of the gallery of a trinquete

Descendants

• → Portuguese: tejadilho

Further reading

• “tejadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014