gallito

English

Noun

gallito (plural gallitos)

Either of two birds in the Rhinocryptidae family, the crested gallito (Rhinocrypta lanceolata) or the sandy gallito (Teledromas fuscus).
A species of flowering tree in the legume family Fabaceae, Erythrina fusca.

Anagrams

galliot

Spanish

Etymology

gallo +‎ -ito

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ɡaˈʝito/ [ɡaˈʝi.t̪o]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ɡaˈʎito/ [ɡaˈʎi.t̪o]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ɡaˈʃito/ [ɡaˈʃi.t̪o]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡaˈʒito/ [ɡaˈʒi.t̪o]

Rhymes: -ito
Syllabification: ga‧lli‧to

Noun

gallito m (plural gallitos)

Diminutive of gallo, cockerel, little cock
(Venezuela, chiefly in the plural) popcorn
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita

Further reading

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

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