postigo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese postigoo, from Latin postīcum (“back door”).

• Hyphenation: pos‧ti‧go

postigo m (plural postigos)

2. a small window, peephole, hatch
4. shutter (protective panels over a window)
6. scuttle
8. wicket, wicket gate

• “postigo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “postigo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish postigo, from Latin postīcum.

• IPA^(key): /posˈtiɡo/ [posˈt̪i.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: pos‧ti‧go

postigo m (plural postigos)

2. shutter (protective panels over a window)

   Synonym: contraventana

• “postigo”, 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