silguero

Mecayapan Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• sirguero

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish silguero (“goldfinch”).

Noun

silguero

1. hummingbird

References

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 166, 167

Spanish

Noun

silguero m (plural silgueros)

1. Archaic spelling of jilguero.

Further reading

• “silguero”, 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