tecolote
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tecolōtl.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tecolote m (plural tecolotes)
- (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, New Mexico) owl
- Synonym: búho
- (colloquial, dated, Mexico) policeman
Further reading
[edit]- “tecolote”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ote
- Rhymes:Spanish/ote/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
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- Salvadorian Spanish
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- es:Law enforcement
- es:Owls