colmillo

Spanish

Picture dictionary: dientes (teeth)

molares

/ muelas

/ colmillos

Names of human teeth in Spanish.

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin columellus (“canine tooth, tusk”) (attested in Isidore of Seville), masculine variant of columella (literally “small column, pillar”), diminutive of columna (“column”). Used Classically to refer to the grinding teeth of horses in Varro and Pliny in the form columellārēs dentēs (literally “pillar-formed teeth”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kolˈmiʝo/ [kolˈmi.ʝo] (Spain, most of Latin America, Equatorial Guinea)
IPA^(key): /kolˈmiʎo/ [kolˈmi.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /kolˈmiʃo/ [kolˈmi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /kolˈmiʒo/ [kolˈmi.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
IPA^(key): /kolˈmio/ [kolˈmi.o] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

Rhymes: -iʝo (Spain, most of Latin America, Equatorial Guinea)
Rhymes: -iʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
Rhymes: -iʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
Rhymes: -io (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

Syllabification: col‧mi‧llo

Noun

colmillo m (plural colmillos)

(teeth) canine tooth
tusk, fang

colmillo

Spanish

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