cocodrilo

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cocodrilo m (plural cocodrilos)

1. crocodile

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cocodrilo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• crocodilo (rare)

Hyperthetic form from Latin crocodīlus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos).

• IPA^(key): /kokoˈdɾilo/ [ko.koˈð̞ɾi.lo]

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• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: co‧co‧dri‧lo

cocodrilo m (plural cocodrilos, feminine cocodrila, feminine plural cocodrilas)

1. crocodile (predatory amphibious reptile of the family Crocodylidae)
2. (proscribed, informal) crocodile, alligator (crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials)

• caimán
• lagarto
• reptil
• réptil

• “cocodrilo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014