ciruela
English edit
Noun edit
ciruela (uncountable)
- The plant Spondias purpurea.
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Noun edit
ciruela f (plural cirueles)
- plum (fruit)
Synonyms edit
Fala edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish ciruela.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ciruela f (plural ciruelas)
- (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) plum (fruit)
Derived terms edit
- cirueleiru (“plum tree”)
References edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Late Latin cēreola, an ellipsis of cēreola prūna (literally “wax-colored plums”), from the neuter plural of Latin cereolus, later reinterpreted as a feminine singular; see cēra.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θiˈɾwela/ [θiˈɾwe.la]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /siˈɾwela/ [siˈɾwe.la]
- Rhymes: -ela
- Syllabification: ci‧rue‧la
Noun edit
ciruela f (plural ciruelas)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- ciruelo m
Further reading edit
- “ciruela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014