noun, masculineplural: tresillos
triplet; three-piece suite; a type of card game; a type of Latin American musical rhythm consisting of three-beat units; an obsolete letter shaped like a 3 from colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a uvular ejective
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Italic *trēs Latin trēs Spanish tres Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old Spanish -iello Spanish -illo Spanish tresillo From tres (“three”) + -illo.