sietillo

Spanish

Etymology

From siete (“seven”) +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sjeˈtiʝo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /sjeˈtiʝo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /sjeˈtiʎo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sjeˈtiʃo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sjeˈtiʒo/ [sjeˈt̪i.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

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

• Syllabification: sie‧ti‧llo

Noun

sietillo m (plural sietillos, feminine sietilla, feminine plural sietillas)

1. (Honduras, El Salvador) a premature; an infant born prematurely, especially at seven months of pregnancy.

Further reading

• “sietillo”, 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
• “sietillo” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010