fuelle
Middle English
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈfweʝe/ [ˈfwe.ʝe]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈfweʎe/ [ˈfwe.ʎe]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈfweʃe/ [ˈfwe.ʃe]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈfweʒe/ [ˈfwe.ʒe]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝe
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎe
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃe
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒe
- Syllabification: fue‧lle
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin follem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰnis, derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).
Noun
fuelle m (plural fuelles)
- bellows (device for delivering pressurized air)
- (photography) bellows (enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back)
- the folding roof of a convertible vehicle
- bag (of bagpipes)
- stamina; steam
- 2023 November 12, Xosé Hermida, “La derecha despliega todas sus redes para deslegitimar a Sánchez”, in El País:
- Vox, el partido que tomó vuelo con el procés y que había perdido fuelle a medida que este se desinflaba, ha hallado un balón de oxígeno.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
fuelle
- inflection of follar (“to blow with a bellows”):
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “fuelle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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