cuchillo
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Spanish cuchiello, from Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter. Cognate with English cutlery. Compare English cutlass also.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Syllabification: cu‧chi‧llo
Noun[edit]
cuchillo m (plural cuchillos)
Hyponyms[edit]
- cuchillo de armadura
- cuchillo de carne (“steak knife”) (Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Honduras, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)
- cuchillo de cocina (“kitchen knife”)
- cuchillo de mondar (“paring knife”) (used in parts of Mexico, Spain, Argentina and Uruguay)
- cuchillo de monte
- cuchillo de pelar (“paring knife”), cuchillo para pelar (“paring knife”)
- cuchillo para carne (“steak knife”) (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, Mexico)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Cebuano: kutsilyo
- → Ivatan: kuchiliu
- → Mapudungun: kucijo
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: cochi̱loj
- → Oluta Popoluca: cuchi̱nu
- → San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: cochiyó
- → San Juan Colorado Mixtec: cutsilu
- → Southeastern Tepehuan: kuxiir
- → Tagalog: kutsilyo
- → Zoogocho Zapotec: cwšiyw
Further reading[edit]
- “cuchillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʝo
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʝo/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʎo
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- Rhymes:Spanish/iʃo
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʃo/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʒo
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʒo/3 syllables
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- Spanish nouns
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- es:Cutlery
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