tocino

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tocino (literally “bacon”).

Noun

tocino (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) sweetened and cured pork belly

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”). Compare Spanish tocino and Galician touciño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈθino/

Noun

tocino m (plural tocinos or tocins)

1. pig

   Synonym: cochín

2. lard

   Synonym: blanco, Synonym: lardo

Cebuano

Noun

tocino

1. Nonstandard spelling of tosino.

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Spanish

Etymology

Medieval Latin tuccinum (lardum) (“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 turgēre. The ending was influenced by the end of cecina (“sausage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /toˈθino/ [t̪oˈθi.no]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /toˈsino/ [t̪oˈsi.no]

• Audio (Spain):

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Noun

tocino m (plural tocinos)

1. bacon

   Synonym: beicon

2. salt pork

Hyponyms

• tocino de pavo (“turkey bacon”)

 

Derived terms

• tocinería
• tocino de cielo

 

Anagrams

• tónico

Further reading

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