zarcillo

Spanish

Alternative forms

• çarcillo (obsolete spelling)

Etymology

From earlier cercillo, from Old Spanish cerciello, inherited from Latin circellus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θaɾˈθiʝo/ [θaɾˈθi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /θaɾˈθiʝo/ [θaɾˈθi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /θaɾˈθiʎo/ [θaɾˈθi.ʎo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /saɾˈsiʝo/ [saɾˈsi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /saɾˈsiʝo/ [saɾˈsi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /saɾˈsiʎo/ [saɾˈsi.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /saɾˈsiʃo/ [saɾˈsi.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /saɾˈsiʒo/ [saɾˈsi.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

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

• Syllabification: zar‧ci‧llo

Noun

zarcillo m (plural zarcillos)

1. (botany) tendril
2. Inca tern (Larosterna inca)
3. (Venezuela, Canary Islands, obsolete in Philippines) earring

Related terms

• cerco
• círculo

 

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1991) “zarcillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 94

Further reading

• “zarcillo”, 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
• Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum‎^[2], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN