amontillado

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish amontillado.

Noun

amontillado (countable and uncountable, plural amontillados)

1. A pale, dry sherry from Montilla.

Translations

Translations

• Portuguese: amontillado m, amontilhado m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish amontillado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mɔ̃.ti.ja.do/
• Hyphenation: a‧mon‧ti‧lla‧do

Noun

amontillado m (plural amontillados)

1. amontillado

Further reading

• “amontillado”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• amontilhado

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.mõ.t͡ʃiˈʎa.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.mõ.t͡ʃiˈʎa.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.mõ.t͡ʃiˈʎa.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.mõ.tiˈʎa.du/ [ɐ.mõ.tiˈʎa.ðu]

• Hyphenation: a‧mon‧ti‧lha‧do

Noun

amontillado m (plural amontillados)

1. amontillado (a type of Spanish wine)

Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ Montilla +‎ -ar, named for the town in southern Spain where the wine was originally made. The place name is from a diminutive of montaña.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /amontiˈʝado/ [a.mõn̪.t̪iˈʝa.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /amontiˈʝado/ [a.mõn̪.t̪iˈʝa.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /amontiˈʎado/ [a.mõn̪.t̪iˈʎa.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /amontiˈʃado/ [a.mõn̪.t̪iˈʃa.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /amontiˈʒado/ [a.mõn̪.t̪iˈʒa.ð̞o]

• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧mon‧ti‧lla‧do

Noun

amontillado m (plural amontillados)

1. amontillado

Further reading

• “amontillado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10