cuchillo
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish cuchiello, from Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter. Cognate with English cutlery. Compare English cutlass also.
Pronunciation
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Noun
cuchillo m (plural cuchillos)
Hyponyms
- 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 pelar (“paring knife”), cuchillo para pelar (“paring knife”)
- cuchillo para carne (“steak knife”) (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, Mexico)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kutsilyo
- → Mapudungun: kucijo
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: cochi̱loj
- → Oluta Popoluca: cuchi̱nu
- → San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: cochiyó
- → Southeastern Tepehuan: kuxiir
- → Tagalog: kutsilyo
- → Zoogocho Zapotec: cwšiyw
Further reading
- “cuchillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014