tresillo
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- (music) triplet
- three-piece suite
- A type of card game
- A type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of three-beat units.
- An obsolete letter shaped like a 3 from colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a uvular ejective.
Etymology
Suffix from Spanish, Castilian tres (three).
Origin
Spanish
tres
Gloss
three
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Number
Kanji
三