cellisca

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈʝiska/ [θeˈʝis.ka]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /θeˈʝiska/ [θeˈʝis.ka]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /θeˈʎiska/ [θeˈʎis.ka]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈʝiska/ [seˈʝis.ka]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /seˈʝiska/ [seˈʝis.ka]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /seˈʎiska/ [seˈʎis.ka]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /seˈʃiska/ [seˈʃis.ka]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /seˈʒiska/ [seˈʒis.ka]

• Rhymes: -iska
• Syllabification: ce‧llis‧ca

Noun

cellisca f (plural celliscas)

1. sleet, (mixture of rain and snow)

Derived terms

• cellisquear

 

Further reading

• “cellisca”, 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