botillo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Asturian botiellu, from Latin botellus. For the unexpected retention of Latin /-t-/, Coromines & Pascual propose influence from botija (“vessel”) and other such words. Cognate with Asturian botiellu, Galician botelo and Portuguese butelo.

a piece of botillo

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /boˈtiʝo/ [boˈt̪i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /boˈtiʝo/ [boˈt̪i.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /boˈtiʎo/ [boˈt̪i.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /boˈtiʃo/ [boˈt̪i.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /boˈtiʒo/ [boˈt̪i.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

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

• Syllabification: bo‧ti‧llo

Noun

botillo m (plural botillos)

1. (Asturias, Cantabria, Leon, Palencia, Zamora) a cured meat dish, made from bits of pig meat stuffed inside a pig's cecum

   Synonym: botillo del Bierzo

Further reading

• “botillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28