barrilete

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old French barilbor.?

Old Occitan barrilbor.?

Old Galician-Portuguese barril

Portuguese barril

Portuguese -ete

Portuguese barrilete

From barril + -ete.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ba.ʁiˈle.t͡ʃi/ [ba.hiˈle.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ba.ʁiˈle.t͡ʃi/ [ba.hiˈle.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ba.ʁiˈle.t͡ʃi/ [ba.χiˈle.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ba.ʁiˈle.te/ [ba.hiˈle.te]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.ʁiˈle.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: bar‧ri‧le‧te

Noun

barrilete m (plural barriletes)

1. a small barrel

   Synonym: barrica

Further reading

• “barrilete”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “barrilete”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish barril

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Late Latin -ittus

Old French -et

Middle French -et

French -etbor.

Spanish -ete

Spanish barrilete

From barril + -ete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bariˈlete/ [ba.riˈle.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: ba‧rri‧le‧te

Noun

barrilete m (plural barriletes)

1. (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Southern Cone, uncommon in Bolivia) kite (toy carried on the wind)

   Synonyms: cometa, (El Salvador, Colombia) piscucha, (El Salvador) papalota, (Cuba, Honduras, Mexico) papalote

Further reading

• “barrilete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “barrilete”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010