de tapadillo
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de tapaˈdiʝo/ [d̪e t̪a.paˈð̞i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)Category:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#DE%20TAPADILLO
- IPA(key): /de tapaˈdiʎo/ [d̪e t̪a.paˈð̞i.ʎo] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)Category:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#DE%20TAPADILLO
- IPA(key): /de tapaˈdiʃo/ [d̪e t̪a.paˈð̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)Category:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#DE%20TAPADILLO
- IPA(key): /de tapaˈdiʒo/ [d̪e t̪a.paˈð̞i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)Category:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#DE%20TAPADILLO
- Syllabification: de ta‧pa‧di‧llo
Adverb
de tapadilloCategory:Spanish lemmas#DE%20TAPADILLOCategory:Spanish adverbs#DE%20TAPADILLOCategory:Spanish multiword terms#DE%20TAPADILLOCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#DE%20TAPADILLOCategory:Pages with entries#DE%20TAPADILLOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DE%20TAPADILLO
- (idiomaticCategory:Spanish idioms#DE%20TAPADILLO) in secret; on the hush-hush
- Synonyms: a cencerros tapados, a hurtadillas, de extranjis, a lo zorro
- fue nombrado de tapadillo
- he was named in secret
- 1995, José Ignacio Madalena Calvo, Programa de diversificación curricular:
- O sea, la Constitución se metió en esa Legislatura, que después hemos llamado constituyente, casi de tapadilloCategory:Spanish terms with quotations#DE%20TAPADILLOCategory:Requests for translations of Spanish quotations#DE%20TAPADILLO
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “de tapadillo”, 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
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