cuilío
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom Nahuatl cuilía (“to steal”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcuilío m (plural cuilíos, feminine cuilía, feminine plural cuilías)
- (colloquial, derogatory, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador) a police officer
- Synonym: policía
Further reading
edit- “cuilío”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “cuilío” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010.
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- Spanish terms derived from Nahuatl
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/io
- Rhymes:Spanish/io/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish colloquialisms
- Spanish derogatory terms
- Honduran Spanish
- Guatemalan Spanish
- Salvadorian Spanish