zarcillo

• çarcillo (obsolete spelling)

From earlier cercillo, from Old Spanish cerciello, inherited from Latin circellus.

• Syllabification: zar‧ci‧llo

zarcillo m (plural zarcillos)

1. (botany) tendril
2. Inca tern (Larosterna inca)
3. (Venezuela, Canary Islands, obsolete in Philippines) earring

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1991) “zarcillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 94

• “zarcillo”, 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
• Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum‎^[2], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN