tresillo

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tresillo

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Borrowed from Spanish tresillo.

noun

A type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of three-beat units.
An obsolete letter (Ꜫ, ꜫ) used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a uvular ejective.

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"tresillo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tresillo. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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tresillo. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tresillo

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"tresillo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tresillo.

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@misc{tresillo_2026,
  title = {tresillo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tresillo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}