tilinte
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Verb ===
tilinte
inflection of tilintar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Nahuatl tilinquí (“stretched”)
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /tiˈlinte/ [t̪iˈlĩn̪.t̪e]
Rhymes: -inte
Syllabification: ti‧lin‧te
=== Adjective ===
tilinte m or f (masculine and feminine plural tilintes)
(colloquial, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua) taut, stretched
Synonym: tenso
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“tilinte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025