quillo

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiʝo/ [ˈki.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkiʝo/ [ˈki.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈkiʎo/ [ˈki.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkiʃo/ [ˈki.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkiʒo/ [ˈki.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

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

• Syllabification: qui‧llo

Contraction

quillo

1. (colloquial, Andalusia, Cádiz) Contraction of chiquillo (a term of endearment for a young person); often used as an interjection

Derived terms

• illo

Further reading

• “quillo”, 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