duendecillo
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Etymology
[edit]From duende (“elf, imp”) + -cillo (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /dwendeˈsiʝo/ [d̪wẽn̪.d̪eˈsi.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /dwendeˈsiʎo/ [d̪wẽn̪.d̪eˈsi.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /dwendeˈsiʃo/ [d̪wẽn̪.d̪eˈsi.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /dwendeˈsiʒo/ [d̪wẽn̪.d̪eˈsi.ʒo]
- Syllabification: duen‧de‧ci‧llo
Noun
[edit]duendecillo m (plural duendecillos)
- pixie, sprite
- 2017, Tyto Alba, Fellini en Roma, Astiberri, →ISBN, page 24:
- Más que una ayudante, era casi mi jefa, discreta y en segundo plano, como un duendecillo que me aconsejaba e inspiraba constantemente.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- leprechaun
- hobgoblin, gremlin
Further reading
[edit]- “duende”, 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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