aguinaldo

See also: Aguinaldo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aguinaldo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːɡɪˈnɑːldoʊ/

Noun

aguinaldo (countable and uncountable, plural aguinaldos)

1. A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
2. A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
3. Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
4. (Latin America) A Christmas carol.
5. A song performed in this style.
   • 2007 October 16, Jon Pareles, “Planting a Love Seed at the Garden”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.

6. A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.

References

• "aguinaldo" in Collins Dictionary

Spanish

Alternative forms

• aguilando (rare)

Etymology

From aguilando.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɡiˈnaldo/ [a.ɣ̞iˈnal̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -aldo
• Syllabification: a‧gui‧nal‧do

Noun

aguinaldo m (plural aguinaldos)

1. aguinaldo (gift given at Christmas or Epiphany)
2. aguinaldo (gift given on any other occasion)
3. aguinaldo (Christmas carol)
4. aguinaldo (tropical plant)

Descendants

• → Hiligaynon: aginaldo
• → Tagalog: aginaldo

Further reading

• “aguinaldo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10