sollozo

See also: sollozó

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /soˈʝoθo/ [soˈʝo.θo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /soˈʝoθo/ [soˈʝo.θo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /soˈʎoθo/ [soˈʎo.θo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /soˈʝoso/ [soˈʝo.so]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /soˈʝoso/ [soˈʝo.so]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /soˈʎoso/ [soˈʎo.so]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /soˈʃoso/ [soˈʃo.so]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /soˈʒoso/ [soˈʒo.so]

• Rhymes: -oθo
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: so‧llo‧zo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin suggluttium (attested in some glosses), ultimately from Latin singultus, influenced by gluttiō. Cognate of Portuguese soluço, Romanian sughiț; also related to French sanglot, Italian singhiozzo, from *singlutium. Doublet of singulto.

Noun

sollozo m (plural sollozos)

1. sob

Related terms

• sollozar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

sollozo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sollozar

Further reading

• “sollozo”, 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