cuello

Inherited from Latin collum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎo/
• Syllabification: cue‧llo
• Rhymes: -eʎo

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck

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

Inherited from Spanish cuello (“neck”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎo/, [ˈkwe.ʎo]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎu/, [ˈkwe.ʎu] (Ternateño)
• Hyphenation: cue‧llo

cuello

1. neck (part of body connecting the head and the torso)
2. collar (part of a shirt fitting around the neck)

Inherited from Latin collum. Cognate with Old French col and Old Galician-Portuguese colo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweʎo/

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r. a:

     Corrio eſau aencuẽtro de ſo ermano. E abraçol & echo ſobre ſo cuello el braço.

     Esau ran to meet with his brother, then he hugged him and put his arm over his neck.

   • Idem, f. 61r. a.

     Eſtas palabras hyua diziendo por la uilla de ih̃r̃l̃m e yua cõ la cadena enel cuello

     He said these words throughout the city of Jerusalem while walking with the chain around his neck

Inherited from Old Spanish cuello, from Latin collum.

Cognate with English collar, French cou, Italian collo, Galician and Portuguese colo.

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• Syllabification: cue‧llo

cuello m (plural cuellos)

1. neck (part of body connecting the head and the torso)
2. collar (part of a shirt fitting around the neck)

• → Central Bikol: kuwelyo
• → Cebuano: kwelyo
• → Tagalog: kuwelyo

• “cuello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025