🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

topillo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: topillo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vole/voʊl/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #25000 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El topillo es un pequeño roedor herbívoro."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A small, mouse-like rodent that typically lives in damp meadows or fields.

    "The gardener noticed that a vole had been chewing on the roots of the young fruit trees."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in the mid 19th century as an abbreviation of 'vole-mouse', from obsolete 'vole' (meaning a game of cards where all tricks are won, from French 'voler' to steal or fly), or alternatively from Norwegian 'voll' (field).

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