junquillo

Spanish

Etymology

Diminutive of junco (“reed, rush”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /xunˈkiʝo/ [xũŋˈki.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /xunˈkiʝo/ [xũŋˈki.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /xunˈkiʎo/ [xũŋˈki.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /xunˈkiʃo/ [xũŋˈki.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /xunˈkiʒo/ [xũŋˈki.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

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

• Syllabification: jun‧qui‧llo

Noun

junquillo m (plural junquillos)

1. (botany) jonquil

Descendants

• → Catalan: jonquillo
• → French: jonquille
  • → English: jonquil
  • → German: Jonquille
• → Italian: giunchiglia
• → Portuguese: junquilho

Further reading

• “junquillo”, 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