carcelazo

Spanish

Etymology

From cárcel +‎ -azo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaɾθeˈlaθo/ [kaɾ.θeˈla.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaɾseˈlaso/ [kaɾ.seˈla.so]
• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: car‧ce‧la‧zo

Noun

carcelazo m (plural carcelazos)

1. (Colombia, Venezuela) imprisonment

Further reading

• “carcelazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28