botijo
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish botijo, from Spanish botija, from Vulgar Latin *buticula[1] (or from Late Latin butticula,[2] with attestation difficult to locate), from Vulgar Latin buttis (or LL.[3]).
Noun
[edit]botijo (plural botijos)
- A traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.
References
[edit]- ^ Etymology and history of “bouteille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “botija”, 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
- ^ idem.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From botija.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]botijo m (plural botijos)
- botijo
- c. 1907, Luis Bonafoux, Gotas de sangre: crímenes y criminales:
- Al paso que van, no dudo que habrá que establecer trenes botijos para presidiarios reconocidos inocentes, después de haber pasado un cuarto de siglo trabajando bajo un sol que no alumbra
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: botijo
Further reading
[edit]- “botijo”, 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
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