tomillar

Spanish

FWOTD – 15 March 2018

Etymology

From tomillo (“thyme”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tomiˈʝaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /tomiˈʝaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /tomiˈʎaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʎaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /tomiˈʃaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /tomiˈʒaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʒaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: to‧mi‧llar

Noun

tomillar m (plural tomillares)

1. a biome of Spain in which thyme plants predominate
   • 2017 May 11, “Descubierta en el Anoia una nueva especie de langosta”, in El Periódico‎^[1]:

     En un primer momento, los naturalistas creyeron haber localizado una nueva población de una langosta conocida científicamente como 'Prionotropis flexuosa', que en Catalunya solo había sido documentada hasta entonces en el tomillar de Alfés (Timoneda d'Alfés), en el Segrià.

     At first, the naturalists thought that they had found a new population of locusts known scientifically as 'Prionotropis flexuosa', which in Catalonia had only been known until then in the tomillar of Alfés (Timoneda d'Alfés), in Segrià.

Further reading

• “tomillar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• tomillar on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es