tejolote

Spanish tejolote

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌteɪhəˈloʊteɪ/

tejolote (plural tejolotes)

1. A stone pestle used in Mexican cuisine, often cylindrical in shape and used with a molcajete.

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl texōlōtl (“grinding stone, pestle”), from teci (“to grind maize”) + ōlōtl (“corncob”), in reference to the cylindrical shape of the pestle.

• IPA^(key): /texoˈlote/ [t̪e.xoˈlo.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: te‧jo‧lo‧te

tejolote m (plural tejolotes)

1. a stone pestle used in Mexican cuisine, often cylindrical in shape and used with a molcajete

   Synonyms: mano, pilón

• metate
• molcajete

• “tejolote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014