cenzontle
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈθontle/ [θẽn̟ˈθõn̪.t̪le]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈsontle/ [sẽnˈsõn̪.t̪le]
- Rhymes: -ontle
- Syllabification: cen‧zon‧tle
Noun edit
cenzontle m (plural cenzontles)
Further reading edit
- “cenzontle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014