canecillo

Spanish

Etymology

Diminutive of can, by metonymy.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaneˈθiʝo/ [ka.neˈθi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /kaneˈθiʝo/ [ka.neˈθi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /kaneˈθiʎo/ [ka.neˈθi.ʎo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kaneˈsiʝo/ [ka.neˈsi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /kaneˈsiʝo/ [ka.neˈsi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kaneˈsiʎo/ [ka.neˈsi.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaneˈsiʃo/ [ka.neˈsi.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaneˈsiʒo/ [ka.neˈsi.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo
• Rhymes: -iʎo
• Rhymes: -iʃo
• Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: ca‧ne‧ci‧llo

Noun

canecillo m (plural canecillos)

1. (architecture) bracket

Further reading

• “canecillo”, 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