cabrilleo

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kabɾiˈʝeo/ [ka.β̞ɾiˈʝe.o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kabɾiˈʝeo/ [ka.β̞ɾiˈʝe.o]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains to Paraguay, Philippines) /kabɾiˈʎeo/ [ka.β̞ɾiˈʎe.o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kabɾiˈʃeo/ [ka.β̞ɾiˈʃe.o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kabɾiˈʒeo/ [ka.β̞ɾiˈʒe.o]

• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: ca‧bri‧lle‧o

Etymology 1

Deverbal from cabrillear.

Noun

cabrilleo m (plural cabrilleos)

1. foaming, breaking into foam (said of sea waves)

Etymology 2

Verb

cabrilleo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cabrillear

Further reading

• “cabrilleo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28