mejillón
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Portuguese mexilhão or from Galician mexillón.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: me‧ji‧llón
Noun
editmejillón m (plural mejillones)
- mussel
- Synonym: choro
- Chilean mussel
References
edit- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “mejillón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
edit- “mejillón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Spanish terms derived from Portuguese
- Spanish terms borrowed from Galician
- Spanish terms derived from Galician
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/on
- Rhymes:Spanish/on/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Seafood
- es:Bivalves