lotería

See also: loteria, lotéria, and loterią

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

lotería f (plural loterías)

1. lottery

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “lotería”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French loterie, from Middle Dutch loterie, from the same root as Old English hlot (whence English lot).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loteˈɾia/ [lo.t̪eˈɾi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: lo‧te‧rí‧a

Noun

lotería f (plural loterías)

1. lottery
2. a traditional Mexican game of chance, similar to bingo, but using images on a deck of cards instead of numbered ping pong balls

Derived terms

• lotería de cartones

 

Related terms

• lotero

 

Further reading

• “lotería”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014