tosino

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish tocino (“bacon”), from Medieval Latin tuccinum lardum (literally “bacon lard”), from Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”), from tucca (“liquid lard”), a word said to be of Celtic origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-, related to Latin turgeō. The ending was influenced by the end of cecina.

Noun

tosino

1. a type of cured meat; usually pork tenderloin in a mixture of annatto, salt, pepper, rhum or pineapple juice, enzyme powder, curing salt and previously saltpeter

Italian

Verb

tosino

1. third-person plural present subjunctive/imperative of tosare

Anagrams

• Onisto, notosi, ontosi, ostino, ostinò, stoino, tosoni

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tocino — unadapted borrowing
• tusino — common

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tocino (“bacon”), from Medieval Latin tuccinum (lardum) (“bacon lard”), from Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”), from tucca (“liquid lard”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /toˈsino/ [toˈsiː.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: to‧si‧no

Noun

tosino (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐᜒᜈᜓ)

1. tocino (sweetened and cured pork belly)
2. (obsolete) fat or lean bacon

Derived terms

• tosinuhan

Further reading

• “tosino”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 577: “Toçino) Toſino (pp) C. gordo o magro”