mejillón

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese mexilhão or from Galician mexillón.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /mexiˈʝon/ [me.xiˈʝõn]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /mexiˈʎon/ [me.xiˈʎõn]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /mexiˈʃon/ [me.xiˈʃõn]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /mexiˈʒon/ [me.xiˈʒõn]

Rhymes: -on
Syllabification: me‧ji‧llón

Noun

mejillón m (plural mejillones)

mussel
Synonym: choro
Chilean mussel

References

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “mejillón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

“mejillón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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