Galician

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /enˈtuɟo/ [en̪ˈt̪u.ɟʊ]
  • Rhymes: -uɟo
  • Hyphenation: en‧tu‧llo

Etymology 1

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First attested in 1370. Back-formation from entullar, from tulla. Cognate with Portuguese entulho.

Noun

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entullo m (plural entullos)

  1. (uncountable) rubble, filler
    Synonym: rebo
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 231:
      Et começarõ logo a sacar moytas pedras et moyto entullo
      Then they began to extract many stones and much rubble
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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entullo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of entullar

References

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Galician entullo or Portuguese entulho.

Pronunciation

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  • Syllabification: en‧tu‧llo

Noun

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entullo m (plural entullos)

  1. (Canary Islands, uncountable) rubble, filler

Further reading

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  • entullo”, in Diccionario Básico de Canarismos [Basic Dictionary of Canarianisms] (in Spanish), Canarian Academy of the Language [Spanish: Academia Canaria de La Lengua], 2010
  • entullo”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021