frenillo

Spanish

Etymology

From freno +‎ -illo.

Noun

frenillo m (plural frenillos)

1. (orthodontics, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Venezuela) braces

   Synonyms: frenos, aparatos, aparatos dentales, brackets

2. frenulum (fold of tissue that prevents an organ in the body from moving too far)
3. speech disorder

Further reading

• “frenillo”, 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