tobillo
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish touiello, from Vulgar Latin *tūbellum, a diminutive of Latin tūber (“hump, bump, swelling, protuberance”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Colombia): (file)
- Syllabification: to‧bi‧llo
Noun edit
tobillo m (plural tobillos)
- ankle
- 1980, “Chicas De Colegio”, performed by Mamá:
- Desde mi ventana / yo las veo pasear / sus pequeños cuerpos / sus tobillos de cristal
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tobillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014