palomita
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From paloma (“dove”) + -ita (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]palomita f (plural palomitas)
- diminutive of paloma, little dove
- popcorn (from its resemblance in appearance to doves)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita
- (botany) Codonorchis lessonii
- (soccer) diving header
- (Peru) penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
Derived terms
[edit]- cuello palomita (“wing collar, a type of shirt collar often used with tuxedo”)
- palomita cordillerana
- palomita dorada
Further reading
[edit]- “palomita”, 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
palomita on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Categories:
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ita (diminutive)
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ita
- Rhymes:Spanish/ita/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish diminutive nouns
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