tejadillo

Spanish

A tejadillo (sense 2) made of corrugated metal.

Etymology

From tejado +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025