taltuza
Italian edit
Noun edit
taltuza m (invariable)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Pipil tāltūsan (“gopher”). Compare Classical Nahuatl tlālli (“earth, soil”) + tozan (“gopher, mole”) (compare tuza).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /talˈtuθa/ [t̪al̪ˈt̪u.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /talˈtusa/ [t̪al̪ˈt̪u.sa]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -uθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -usa
- Syllabification: tal‧tu‧za
Noun edit
taltuza f (plural taltuzas)
- (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) gopher
- Synonym: (Mexico) tuza
Further reading edit
- “taltuza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014