cuchillo
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish cuchiello, from Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter. Cognate with English cutlery. Compare English cutlass also.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kuˈt͡ʃiʝo/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kuˈt͡ʃiʎo/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kuˈt͡ʃiʃo/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kuˈt͡ʃiʒo/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʒo]
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- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo
- Syllabification: cu‧chi‧llo
Noun
cuchillo m (plural cuchillos)
- knife
- Synonyms: estilete, daga, faca, navaja, puñal
- Coordinate terms: cuchara, tenedor
- blade of knife
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
- acuchillar
- cuchillada
- cuchillería
- cuchillero
- cuchillito
- cuchillón
- en casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kutsilyo
- → 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
- “cuchillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014