collazo

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin collacteus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koˈʝaθo/ [koˈʝa.θo] (most of Spain)
IPA^(key): /koˈʎaθo/ [koˈʎa.θo] (rural northern Spain)

IPA^(key): /koˈʝaso/ [koˈʝa.so] (most of Latin America)
IPA^(key): /koˈʎaso/ [koˈʎa.so] (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)

IPA^(key): /koˈʃaso/ [koˈʃa.so] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /koˈʒaso/ [koˈʒa.so] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Rhymes: -aθo (Spain)
Rhymes: -aso (Latin America, Philippines)
Syllabification: co‧lla‧zo

Noun

collazo m (plural collazos)

milk brother

Further reading

“collazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024