ladrillo

Galician

Alternative forms

• ladrilho (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Spanish ladrillo, from a diminutive form of Latin later. Compare Portuguese ladrilho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈðɾiʎo̝/

Noun

ladrillo m (plural ladrillos)

1. (construction) brick
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 445:

     cinco mil ladrillos ben cozidos e de boo barro

     five thousand bricks, correctly fired and made of good clay

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ladrillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ladrillo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ladrillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ladrillo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ladrillo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish ladriello, a diminutive of Latin later.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /laˈdɾiʝo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /laˈdɾiʝo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /laˈdɾiʎo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /laˈdɾiʃo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /laˈdɾiʒo/ [laˈð̞ɾi.ʒo]

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• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo
• Rhymes: -iʎo
• Rhymes: -iʃo
• Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: la‧dri‧llo

Noun

ladrillo m (plural ladrillos)

1. brick

   Synonym: tocho

Derived terms

• ladrillazo
• ladrillo caravista

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: ladrilho
• → Asturian: lladriyu
• → Galician: ladrillo

Further reading

• “ladrillo”, 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