guillotina

See also: guillotiná

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: guillotinas, guillotinât

Verb

guillotina

1. third-person singular past historic of guillotiner

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡiʝoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʝoˈt̪i.na]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ɡiʝoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʝoˈt̪i.na]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ɡiʎoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʎoˈt̪i.na]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ɡiʃoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʃoˈt̪i.na]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡiʒoˈtina/ [ɡi.ʒoˈt̪i.na]

• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: gui‧llo‧ti‧na

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French guillotine, from the surname of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

Noun

guillotina f (plural guillotinas)

1. guillotine

Derived terms

• guillotinar (verb)

 

Etymology 2

Verb

guillotina

1. inflection of guillotinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “guillotina”, 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