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cuatrillo

cuatrillo noun: an obsolete letter (Ꜭ, ꜭ) shaped like a 4 with a hook, used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective.

Noun

cuatrillo

  1. An obsolete letter (Ꜭ, ꜭ) shaped like a 4 with a hook, used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective.

Origin of cuatrillo

From Spanish cuatrillo.

Questions about cuatrillo

What does cuatrillo mean?
Cuatrillo means an obsolete letter (Ꜭ, ꜭ) shaped like a 4 with a hook, used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective.
What part of speech is cuatrillo?
Cuatrillo is a noun.

Words near cuatrillo in the dictionary

  1. cuartillas
  2. cuartillo
  3. cuarto
  4. cuartos
  5. CUAS
  6. cuatrillo
  7. cuatrista
  8. cuatristas
  9. cuatro
  10. cuatros
  11. cuauchichicine

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