English Explanatory Dictionary

saltillo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
  2. In mostly Hispanophone countries, especially Mexico, an apostrophe-like letter (lowercase ꞌ and in some orthographies capital Ꞌ) used to represent a glottal stop.
name
  1. The capital and largest city of the state of Coahuila in Mexico.

Word forms

saltillo saltillos

Etymology

From Spanish saltillo.

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