cerillita

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish cera

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin -ellus

Latin -ella

Old Spanish -iella

Spanish -illa

Spanish cerilla

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Late Latin -ittus

Spanish -ito

Spanish -ita

Spanish cerillita

From cerilla + -ita.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /θeɾiˈʝita/ [θe.ɾiˈʝi.t̪a] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)

• IPA^(key): /θeɾiˈʝita/ [θe.ɾiˈʝi.t̪a] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain)
• IPA^(key): /θeɾiˈʎita/ [θe.ɾiˈʎi.t̪a] (rustic northern Spain)

 

• IPA^(key): /seɾiˈʝita/ [se.ɾiˈʝi.t̪a] (Latin America)

• IPA^(key): /seɾiˈʝita/ [se.ɾiˈʝi.t̪a] (most of Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /seɾiˈʎita/ [se.ɾiˈʎi.t̪a] (northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /seɾiˈʃita/ [se.ɾiˈʃi.t̪a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /seɾiˈʒita/ [se.ɾiˈʒi.t̪a] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /seɾiˈita/ [se.ɾiˈi.t̪a] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: ce‧ri‧lli‧ta

Noun

cerillita f (plural cerillitas)

1. diminutive of cerilla; small match
   • 2015 December, “La niña de los fósforos (cuento de Navidad)”, in Prensa Libre‎^[1]:

     Cuánto placer le causaría calentarse con una cerillita!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)