toallita

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish toalla

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Late Latin -ittus

Spanish -ito

Spanish -ita

Spanish toallita

From toalla + -ita.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /toaˈʝita/ [t̪o.aˈʝi.t̪a]

• IPA^(key): /toaˈʝita/ [t̪o.aˈʝi.t̪a] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /toaˈʎita/ [t̪o.aˈʎi.t̪a] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /toaˈʃita/ [t̪o.aˈʃi.t̪a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /toaˈʒita/ [t̪o.aˈʒi.t̪a] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /toaˈita/ [t̪o.aˈi.t̪a] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: to‧a‧lli‧ta

Noun

toallita f (plural toallitas)

1. diminutive of toalla; small towel, wipe
   • 2015 July 8, Cristina Delgado, “Amazon quiere que compres también el champú por Internet”, in El País‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 April 2016:

     Los clientes ya pueden comprar en un clic más de 25.000 productos de las marcas más populares, desde champú o crema hidratante hasta toallitas de bebé o maquillaje.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• toallita húmeda

Further reading

• “toallita”, 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