What does pastilla in Spanish mean?

What is the meaning of the word pastilla in Spanish? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use pastilla in Spanish.

The word pastilla in Spanish means tablet, bar of soap, bar, full throttle, full pelt. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word pastilla

tablet

nombre femenino (de medicina)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
¿Ya te tomaste la pastilla de las tres?
Have you taken your three o'clock tablet?

bar of soap

nombre femenino (de jabón)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Me resbalé con una pastilla de jabón.
I slipped on a bar of soap.

bar

nombre femenino (porción en tableta)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Me hace falta otra pastilla de chocolate para derretir.
I need another bar of chocolate to melt.

full throttle, full pelt

expresión (coloquial (a toda prisa)

(expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.")
Salió a toda pastilla al ver lo tarde que se le había hecho.
She left at full throttle (or: at full pelt) when she saw how late she was.

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Spanish (español), also known as Castilla, is a language of the Iberian-Romance group of the Romance languages, and the 4th most common language in the world according to Some sources, while others list it as a 2nd or 3rd most common language. It is the mother tongue of about 352 million people, and is spoken by 417 million people when adding its speakers as a language. sub (estimated in 1999). Spanish and Portuguese have very similar grammar and vocabulary; The number of similar vocabulary of these two languages is up to 89%. Spanish is the primary language of 20 countries around the world. It is estimated that the total number of speakers of Spanish is between 470 and 500 million, making it the second most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.