botellazo

Spanish

Etymology

From botella +‎ -azo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /boteˈʝaθo/ [bo.t̪eˈʝa.θo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /boteˈʝaθo/ [bo.t̪eˈʝa.θo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /boteˈʎaθo/ [bo.t̪eˈʎa.θo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /boteˈʝaso/ [bo.t̪eˈʝa.so]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /boteˈʝaso/ [bo.t̪eˈʝa.so]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /boteˈʎaso/ [bo.t̪eˈʎa.so]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /boteˈʃaso/ [bo.t̪eˈʃa.so]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /boteˈʒaso/ [bo.t̪eˈʒa.so]

• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: bo‧te‧lla‧zo

Noun

botellazo m (plural botellazos)

1. a hit with a bottle

Further reading

• “botellazo”, 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