soslayo

See also: soslayó

Spanish

Pronunciation
 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /sosˈlaʝo/ [sosˈla.ʝo]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sosˈlaʃo/ [sosˈla.ʃo]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sosˈlaʒo/ [sosˈla.ʒo]

  • Rhymes: -aʝo
  • Syllabification: sos‧la‧yo

Etymology 1

Related to the verb soslayar (“to place obliquely”), from Old Spanish deslayer (“to go outside the tangent”), from Old French d'eslais (“impetuously”), from s'esslaisier (“to throw with impetus”), from laissier (“to leave”).[1]

Adjective

soslayo (feminine soslaya, masculine plural soslayos, feminine plural soslayas)

  1. slanted, oblique, sideways
    Synonym: oblicuo
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

soslayo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of soslayar

References
  1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 567

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