pretil
Old High German
Etymology
Likely from Proto-Germanic *brezda-, related to Proto-Germanic *burdą.
Descendants
- → Italian: predella
Spanish
Etymology
Metathesis of older petril, from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *pectōrīlis, *pectōrīle, from Latin pectus (“chest”). Compare Portuguese peitoril.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾeˈtil/ [pɾeˈt̪il]
- Rhymes: -il
- Syllabification: pre‧til
Noun
pretil m (plural pretiles)
Further reading
- “pretil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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