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botijo

UK/bəʊˈtiː.həʊ/US/boʊˈti.hoʊ/

botijo noun: a traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.

Noun

botijo (plural botijos)

  1. A traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.

Forms of botijo

pluralbotijos
alternative formbotija

Origin of botijo

Borrowed from Spanish botijo, from Spanish botija, from Vulgar Latin *buticula (or from Late Latin butticula, with attestation difficult to locate), from Vulgar Latin buttis (or LL.).

Questions about botijo

What does botijo mean?
Botijo means a traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.
What part of speech is botijo?
Botijo is a noun.
How do you pronounce botijo?
Botijo is pronounced /bəʊˈtiː.həʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of botijo?
The plural of botijo is botijos.

Words near botijo in the dictionary

  1. botifarras
  2. botiid
  3. botiids
  4. botija
  5. botijas
  6. botijo
  7. botijos
  8. Botilao
  9. botkin
  10. botkins
  11. botleas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: botijo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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