villancico

English

Etymology

From Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌviːjanˈsiːkəʊ/, /ˌviːjanˈθiːkəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌviljənˈsikoʊ/, /ˌviljənˈθikoʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːkəʊ

Noun

villancico (plural villancicos)

1. (music, poetry) A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.
   • 2014, James Haar, editor, European Music, 1520–1640, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 447:

     The villancicos are strophic, but they tend not to extend to the many strophes of narration that were typical of the romance. A standard form for a villancico strophe is ABBA, in which the first A is called the estribillo (refrain), the Bs represent the statement of the music for the copla (stanza) twice (as copla and mudanza), and the return of the estribillo as the vuelta.

Translations

traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song

• Basque: gabon-kanta
• Catalan: villancet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (no equivalent exists) 聖誕頌歌 / 圣诞颂歌 (zh) (Shèngdàn sònggē)

• Galician: vilancico (gl) m
• Italian: villancico m
• Japanese: ビリャンシーコ (biryanshīko)
• Korean: 비얀시코 (biyansiko)
• Portuguese: vilancico (pt) m, vilhancico m, vilancete (pt) m
• Russian: вильянси́ко (ru) n (vilʹjansíko)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: виљансико m

  Roman: villancico (sh) m

• Spanish: villancico (es) m

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vil.lanˈt͡ʃi.ko/, /vi.janˈsi.ko/
• Rhymes: -iko
• Hyphenation: vil‧lan‧cì‧co

Noun

villancico m (invariable)

1. (music, poetry) villancico (traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song)

Spanish

Etymology

From villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /biʝanˈθiko/ [bi.ʝãn̟ˈθi.ko]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /biʝanˈθiko/ [bi.ʝãn̟ˈθi.ko]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /biʎanˈθiko/ [bi.ʎãn̟ˈθi.ko]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /biʝanˈsiko/ [bi.ʝãnˈsi.ko]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /biʝanˈsiko/ [bi.ʝãnˈsi.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /biʎanˈsiko/ [bi.ʎãnˈsi.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /biʃanˈsiko/ [bi.ʃãnˈsi.ko]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /biʒanˈsiko/ [bi.ʒãnˈsi.ko]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: vi‧llan‧ci‧co

Noun

villancico m (plural villancicos)

1. (music, poetry) villancico (traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song)
2. (by extension, music) Christmas carol

Descendants

• → English: villancico
• → Galician: vilancico
• → Portuguese: vilancico, vilhancico

Further reading

• “villancico”, 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