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tresillo

tresillo noun: a type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of three-beat units.

Noun

tresillo

  1. A type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of three-beat units.
  2. An obsolete letter (Ꜫ, ꜫ) used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a uvular ejective.

Origin of tresillo

Borrowed from Spanish tresillo.

Questions about tresillo

What does tresillo mean?
Tresillo means a type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of three-beat units.
What part of speech is tresillo?
Tresillo is a noun.

Words near tresillo in the dictionary

  1. treses
  2. Tresham
  3. treshchotka
  4. Tresidder
  5. Tresidders
  6. tresillo
  7. Tresmeer
  8. Tresoldi
  9. trespace
  10. trespass
  11. trespass offering

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