aguinaldo
See also: Aguinaldo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑːɡɪˈnɑːldoʊ/
Noun
aguinaldo (countable and uncountable, plural aguinaldos)
- A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
- A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
- Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
- (Latin America) A Christmas carol.
- A song performed in this style.
- 2007 October 16, Jon Pareles, “Planting a Love Seed at the Garden”, in New York Times:
- And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.
- A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.
References
- "aguinaldo" in Collins Dictionary
Spanish
Alternative forms
- aguilando (rare)
Etymology
From aguilando.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɡiˈnaldo/ [a.ɣ̞iˈnal̪.d̪o]
- Rhymes: -aldo
- Syllabification: a‧gui‧nal‧do
Noun
aguinaldo m (plural aguinaldos)
Descendants
- → Hiligaynon: aginaldo
Further reading
- “aguinaldo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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