aguinaldo
See also:Aguinaldo
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed fromSpanishaguinaldo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaguinaldo (countable anduncountable,pluralaguinaldos)
- Agift given atChristmas or at theFeast of theEpiphany.
- A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
- Christmaspaybonus;Christmas box.
- (Latin America) AChristmascarol.
- A song performed in this style.
- 2007 October 16, Jon Pareles, “Planting a Love Seed at the Garden”, inNew York Times[1]:
- 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 Ricanaguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.
- A wild tropical plant of theConvolvulaceae family, very common inCuba and which flowers atEaster and Christmas.
References
edit- "aguinaldo" in Collins Dictionary
Spanish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFromaguilando.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaguinaldo m (pluralaguinaldos)
- aguinaldo(gift given at Christmas or Epiphany)
- aguinaldo(gift given on any other occasion)
- aguinaldo(Christmas carol)
- aguinaldo(tropical plant)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “aguinaldo”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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