cuño

Galician

Alternative forms

• cruño

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century. From Latin cuneus. Cognate with Portuguese cunho and Spanish cuño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuɲʊ]

Noun

cuño m (plural cuños)

1. seal (stamp used to impress)

   Synonym: selo

2. seal (impression)
   • 1419, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 200:

     quatro florĩis d'ouro do cuño d'Aragon

     four gold florins of the seal of Aragon

   Synonym: selo

3. Alternative form of cuña

Derived terms

• cuñar

References

• “cuño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cuño” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cruño” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cuño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cuño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cuño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɲo/ [ˈku.ɲo]
• Rhymes: -uɲo
• Syllabification: cu‧ño

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cuneus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”). Compare Sicilian cugnu.

Noun

cuño m (plural cuños)

1. (technical) stamp, die-stamp
2. (figuratively) stamp, mark

Derived terms

• acuñar
• cuña
• de nuevo cuño

 

Etymology 2

Verb

cuño

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuñar

Further reading

• “cuño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014