tocino
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tocino (literally “bacon”).
Noun
tocino (uncountable)
- (Philippines) sweetened and cured pork belly
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”). Compare Spanish tocino and Galician touciño.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toˈθino/
Noun
tocino m (plural tocinos or tocins)
- pig
- Synonym: cochín
- lard
- Synonym: blanco, Synonym: lardo
Cebuano
Noun
tocino
- Nonstandard spelling of tosino.
Spanish
Etymology
Medieval Latin tuccinum (lardum) (“bacon lard”), from Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”), from tucca (“liquid lard”), a word said to be of Celtic origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-, related to Latin turgēre. The ending was influenced by the end of cecina (“sausage”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /toˈθino/ [t̪oˈθi.no]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /toˈsino/ [t̪oˈsi.no]
Audio (Spain) (file) - Rhymes: -ino
- Syllabification: to‧ci‧no
Noun
tocino m (plural tocinos)
- bacon
- Synonyms: beicon, tocineta
- salt pork
Hyponyms
- tocino de pavo (“turkey bacon”)
Derived terms
- tocinería
- tocino de cielo
Further reading
- “tocino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- tónico