aguinaldo

See also: Aguinaldo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aguinaldo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːɡɪˈnɑːldoʊ/

Noun

aguinaldo (countable and uncountable, plural aguinaldos)

  1. A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
  2. A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
  3. Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
  4. (Latin America) A Christmas carol.
  5. 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.
  6. A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.

References

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From aguilando.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɡiˈnaldo/ [a.ɣ̞iˈnal̪.d̪o]
  • Rhymes: -aldo
  • Syllabification: a‧gui‧nal‧do

Noun

aguinaldo m (plural aguinaldos)

  1. aguinaldo (gift given at Christmas or Epiphany)
  2. aguinaldo (gift given on any other occasion)
  3. aguinaldo (Christmas carol)
  4. aguinaldo (tropical plant)

Descendants

  • Hiligaynon: aginaldo

Further reading

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