hocino

hocino

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *faucinus, from Latin faucēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /oˈθino/ [oˈθi.no]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /oˈsino/ [oˈsi.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: ho‧ci‧no

Noun

hocino m (plural hocinos)

1. glen, valley
2. gorge, narrows (of a navigable waterway between mountains)
3. (in the plural) riverside fields or land
4. (agriculture) sickle, billhook

Further reading

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