canónigo
See also: Canonigo
Spanish
editEtymology
editSemi-learned borrowing from Late Latin canonicus (“canon”), from Ancient Greek κανονικός (kanonikós). Cognate with Portuguese cónego, Galician cóengo.
The sense of “corn salad” seems to come by ellipsis from (hierba de los) canónigos.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcanónigo m (plural canónigos)
- canon (ecclesiastic who has a canonry)
- corn salad (any of the small plants in genus Valerianella, used in salads)
- Synonym: hierba de los canónigos
Further reading
edit- “canónigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Spanish semi-learned borrowings from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oniɡo
- Rhymes:Spanish/oniɡo/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Vegetables
- es:Honeysuckle family plants