puerco
Chavacano
Etymology
From Spanish puerco.
Noun
puerco
- pig
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish puerco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpweɾko/ [ˈpweɾ.ko]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -eɾko
- Syllabification: puer‧co
Noun
puerco m (plural puercos, feminine puerca, feminine plural puercas)
- pig
- Synonyms: cerdo, chancho, cocho, cochino, cuchí, gorrino, guarro, marrano
- pork (the meat of a pig)
- (slang, derogatory, Mexico) police officer; "pig"
Derived terms
- mal del puerco
- puercoespín
- puerco no se rasca en javilla
- puerco pibil
Related terms
- emporcar
- pocilga
- porcel
- porcino
- porquera
- porquería
- porqueriza
- porquerizo
- porquero
- puerca
See also
- jabalí
Further reading
- “puerco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- cuerpo