camellón

Spanish

Etymology

From camello +‎ -ón.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kameˈʝon/ [ka.meˈʝõn]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kameˈʝon/ [ka.meˈʝõn]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kameˈʎon/ [ka.meˈʎõn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kameˈʃon/ [ka.meˈʃõn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kameˈʒon/ [ka.meˈʒõn]

• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ca‧me‧llón

Noun

camellón m (plural camellones)

1. ridge
2. levee, dike
3. sawhorse
4. camlet (fabric)
5. (Guatemala, Mexico) median; a dividing strip between two lanes of a road
6. (Guatemala, Panama) curb (of a road)

Further reading

• “camellón”, 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