repollo

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish repollo (“cabbage”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: re‧po‧llo

Noun

repollo

1. cabbage

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʝo/ [reˈpo.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʝo/ [reˈpo.ʝo] (Spain, most of Latin America, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʎo/ [reˈpo.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʃo/ [reˈpo.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /reˈpoʒo/ [reˈpo.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /reˈpojo/ [reˈpo.jo] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

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• Rhymes: -oʝo

• Rhymes: -oʝo (Spain, most of Latin America, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -oʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -oʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -ojo (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Syllabification: re‧po‧llo

Etymology 1

From re- + Latin pullus (“sprout of a plant”), or from the verb repollar, from Latin repullulō, repullulāre, from re- + pullulō.

Noun

repollo m (plural repollos)

1. cabbage

   Synonyms: col, berza

Derived terms

• repollar
• repollo chino
• repolludo

Descendants

• → Cebuano: repolyo
• → Central Bikol: repolyo
• → Chamorro: ripoyu
• → Hanunoo: lipuryo
• → Portuguese: repolho
• → Tagalog: repolyo

Etymology 2

Verb

repollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of repollar

Further reading

• “repollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026