fechillo
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese fecho + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feˈt͡ʃiʝo/ [feˈt͡ʃi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /feˈt͡ʃiʎo/ [feˈt͡ʃi.ʎo] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /feˈt͡ʃiʃo/ [feˈt͡ʃi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /feˈt͡ʃiʒo/ [feˈt͡ʃi.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: fe‧chi‧llo
Noun
fechillo m (plural fechillos)
- (Canary Islands) latch
- Synonym: pestillo
Further reading
- “fechillo”, in Diccionario Básico de Canarismos [Basic Dictionary of Canarianisms] (in Spanish), Canarian Academy of the Language [Spanish: Academia Canaria de La Lengua], 2010
- “fechillo”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021