latiguillo

Spanish

A connection pipe

A patch cable

Etymology

From látigo (“whip”) +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /latiˈɡiʝo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /latiˈɡiʝo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /latiˈɡiʎo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /latiˈɡiʃo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /latiˈɡiʒo/ [la.t̪iˈɣ̞i.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo
• Rhymes: -iʎo
• Rhymes: -iʃo
• Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: la‧ti‧gui‧llo

Noun

latiguillo m (plural latiguillos)

1. small tube, connection pipe
2. small cable, patch cable, patch cord, patch lead
3. small whip
4. stock phrase
5. catchphrase
6. cliché
   • 1999 October 12, “La costosa dictablanda de Pujol”, in El País‎:

     En estas postrimerías del milenio, la máxima se ha convertido en latiguillo; y, para los feligreses del pujolismo, en dogma.

     At the end of the millennium, the maxim has become a cliché; and, for the parishioners of Pujolism, into dogma.

7. (theater) hamming, hamming it up

See also

• muletilla

Further reading

• “latiguillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28