puntillero
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish puntillero.
Noun
[edit]puntillero (plural puntilleros)
- (bullfighting) A bullfighter who finally kills the bull with a blow of a knife.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /puntiˈʝeɾo/ [pũn̪.t̪iˈʝe.ɾo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /puntiˈʎeɾo/ [pũn̪.t̪iˈʎe.ɾo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /puntiˈʃeɾo/ [pũn̪.t̪iˈʃe.ɾo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /puntiˈʒeɾo/ [pũn̪.t̪iˈʒe.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: pun‧ti‧lle‧ro
Noun
[edit]puntillero m (plural puntilleros)
- (bullfighting) cachetero
- 2015 October 3, “Una sabia y necesaria decisión”, in El País[1]:
- Un vídeo de 5 horas, testimonio de lo allí contemplado, fue adjuntado a la denuncia administrativa que yo mismo firmé y ambos presentamos ante la Comunidad de Madrid, lo que supuso una sanción al puntillero y otra al director artístico de la escuela.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “puntillero”, 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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