reggaeton

See also: reggaetón

English edit

Alternative forms edit

reggaetón

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish reggaeton.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /rɛɡeɪˈtɒn/, /rɛɡeɪˈtəʊn/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun edit

reggaeton (uncountable)

A style of Latin American popular music, originally developing from reggae in Panama but now more of a type of hip hop-dance music mainly associated with Puerto Rico.
- 2014, Carrie Gibson, Empire's Crossroads: The Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
  The Spanish islands gave the world salsa, and the more modern (and often controversial) hip-hop style reggaeton, which was forged between the islands and Miami.

Translations edit

Latin American musical genre

Catalan: reguetó m
Esperanto: regetono
Galician: reguetón (gl) m, reggaeton (gl) m
Georgian: რეგეტონი (regeṭoni)
German: Reggaeton m
Greek: ρεγκετόν (regketón)
Spanish: reguetón (es) m, reggaeton (es) m

Anagrams edit

reggeaton

Spanish edit

Alternative forms edit

reguetón, reggaetón

Etymology edit

From reggae +‎ -ón (augmentative suffix), coined by the Panamanian Michael Ellis, late 1980s.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /reɡeˈton/ [re.ɣ̞eˈt̪õn]
Rhymes: -on

Noun edit

reggaeton m (uncountable)

reggaeton

Derived terms edit

reguetón

References edit

^ “reguetón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
^ Martha Vanessa Concepción (2010 July 19) “¿Cómo nació la palabra 'reggaeton'?”, in Mi Diario‎^[1] (in Spanish), archived from the original on 2010-07-22:
Con todo respeto, les quiero decir que la verdad es que Michael Ellis, el mánager de El General, me dijo que no dijera «reggae», que lo pusiera como algo grande y como a todo lo grande nosotros le ponemos «ón», como cabezón, camisón, etc, entonces, lo llamamos "reggaetón", un “reggae” grande. Es la plena verdad.
With all due respect, I want to tell you that the truth is that Michael Ellis, the manager of El General, told me not to say "reggae", to put it as something big and as to everything big we put "ón", like cabezón (“big head”), camisón (“nightgown”), etc, then, we call it “reggaeton”, a big “reggae”. It is the full truth.

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reggaeton

(music) reggaeton

[1] “reguetón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

[2] Martha Vanessa Concepción (2010 July 19) “¿Cómo nació la palabra 'reggaeton'?”, in Mi Diario‎^[1] (in Spanish), archived from the original on 2010-07-22:
Con todo respeto, les quiero decir que la verdad es que Michael Ellis, el mánager de El General, me dijo que no dijera «reggae», que lo pusiera como algo grande y como a todo lo grande nosotros le ponemos «ón», como cabezón, camisón, etc, entonces, lo llamamos "reggaetón", un “reggae” grande. Es la plena verdad.
With all due respect, I want to tell you that the truth is that Michael Ellis, the manager of El General, told me not to say "reggae", to put it as something big and as to everything big we put "ón", like cabezón (“big head”), camisón (“nightgown”), etc, then, we call it “reggaeton”, a big “reggae”. It is the full truth.

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