trullo

Catalan

Verb

trullo

1. first-person singular present indicative of trullar

Italian

FWOTD – 10 August 2014

Trulli di Alberobello.

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek τροῦλλος (troûllos), from Latin trulla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrul.lo/
• Rhymes: -ullo
• Hyphenation: trùl‧lo

Noun

trullo m (plural trulli)

1. a type of conical stone-roofed house in Apulia (especially in Alberobello)
   • 2004, Giovanni Francesio, Italia del sud: Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Touring Editore, page 90:

     I trulli sono costruzioni in pietra dalla base circolare, a volte quadrangolare, sormontate da cupole di forma conica.

     Trulli are stone buildings with a circular base, sometimes quadrangular, topped by conical cupolas.

Further reading

• trullo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan trull.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾuʝo/ [ˈt̪ɾu.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈtɾuʝo/ [ˈt̪ɾu.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈtɾuʎo/ [ˈt̪ɾu.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈtɾuʃo/ [ˈt̪ɾu.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈtɾuʒo/ [ˈt̪ɾu.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -uʝo

• Rhymes: -uʝo
• Rhymes: -uʎo
• Rhymes: -uʃo
• Rhymes: -uʒo

• Syllabification: tru‧llo

Noun

trullo m (plural trullos)

1. (slang) prison, slammer, pen, nick

Related terms

• estrujar

 

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “estrujar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 815

Further reading

• “trullo”, 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