pretil
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
Likely from Proto-Germanic *brezda-, related to Proto-Germanic *burdą.
Noun edit
pretil f
Descendants edit
- → Italian: predella
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Metathesis of older petril, from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *pectōrīlis, *pectōrīle, from Latin pectus (“chest”). Compare Portuguese peitoril.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pretil m (plural pretiles)
- (construction) parapet
- handrail
- 2015 July 5, “Un dinosaurio al borde del abismo”, in El País[1]:
- Vivimos en el borde de un abismo y el arte nos permite poner frágiles pretiles ante la nada.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pretil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014