trineo

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?

Latin trahere

Vulgar Latin *traginare

French traîner

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin -ellus

Old French -el

Middle French -eau

French -eau

French traîneaubor.

Spanish trineo

Borrowed from French traîneau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾiˈneo/ [t̪ɾiˈne.o]

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• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: tri‧ne‧o

Noun

trineo m (plural trineos)

1. sleigh, sled

Derived terms

• trineo individual (“monobob”)

Further reading

• “trineo”, 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