soslayo

See also: soslayó

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sosˈlaʝo/ [sosˈla.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /sosˈlaʝo/ [sosˈla.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sosˈlaʃo/ [sosˈla.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sosˈlaʒo/ [sosˈla.ʒo]

• Rhymes: -aʝo
• Syllabification: sos‧la‧yo

Etymology 1

Related to the verb soslayar (“to place obliquely”), from Old Spanish deslayer (“to go outside the tangent”), from Old French d'eslais (“impetuously”), from s'esslaisier (“to throw with impetus”), from laissier (“to leave”).

Adjective

soslayo (feminine soslaya, masculine plural soslayos, feminine plural soslayas)

1. slanted, oblique, sideways

   Synonym: oblicuo

Derived terms

• de soslayo

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

soslayo

1. first-person singular present indicative of soslayar

Further reading

• “soslayo”, 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