tresillo
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tresillo.
Noun
tresillo
- (music) A type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of three-beat units.
- An obsolete letter (Ꜫ, ꜫ) used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a uvular ejective.
See also
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
tresillo m (plural tresillos)
- (music) triplet
- three-piece suite
- a type of card game
- a type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of three-beat units
- an obsolete letter shaped like a 3 from colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a uvular ejective
- a set of a couch and two armchairs
See also
Further reading
- “tresillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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