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saltillo

saltillo noun: in Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.

Noun

saltillo (plural saltillos)

  1. In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
  2. In mostly Hispanophone countries, especially Mexico, an apostrophe-like letter (lowercase ꞌ and in some orthographies capital Ꞌ) used to represent a glottal stop.

Proper noun capitalized: Saltillo

Saltillo

  1. The capital and largest city of the state of Coahuila in Mexico.

Forms of saltillo

pluralsaltillos

Origin of saltillo

Borrowed from Spanish saltillo.

Questions about saltillo

What does saltillo mean?
Saltillo means in Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
What part of speech is saltillo?
Saltillo can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of saltillo?
The plural of saltillo is saltillos.

Words near saltillo in the dictionary

  1. saltierwise
  2. salties
  3. saltiest
  4. saltigrade
  5. saltigrades
  6. saltillo
  7. saltillos
  8. saltily
  9. saltimbanco
  10. saltimbancos
  11. saltimbank

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