zarcillo

Spanish

Alternative forms

• çarcillo (obsolete spelling)

Etymology

From earlier cercillo, from Old Spanish cerciello, inherited from Latin circellus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θaɾˈθiʝo/ [θaɾˈθi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /θaɾˈθiʝo/ [θaɾˈθi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /θaɾˈθiʎo/ [θaɾˈθi.ʎo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /saɾˈsiʝo/ [saɾˈsi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /saɾˈsiʝo/ [saɾˈsi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains) /saɾˈsiʎo/ [saɾˈsi.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /saɾˈsiʃo/ [saɾˈsi.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /saɾˈsiʒo/ [saɾˈsi.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: zar‧ci‧llo

Noun

zarcillo m (plural zarcillos)

1. (botany) tendril
2. Inca tern (Larosterna inca)
3. (Venezuela, Canary Islands, obsolete in Philippines) earring

Related terms

• cerco
• círculo

 

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1991) “zarcillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 94

Further reading

• “zarcillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum, kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, O.P., 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN