tocino
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish tocino (literally “bacon”).
Noun edit
tocino (uncountable)
- (Philippines) sweetened and cured pork belly
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”). Compare Spanish tocino and Galician touciño.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tocino m (plural tocinos or tocins)
Cebuano edit
Noun edit
tocino
- Nonstandard spelling of tosino.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from 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”). Compare Galician touciño and Portuguese toucinho.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /toˈθino/ [t̪oˈθi.no]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /toˈsino/ [t̪oˈsi.no]
- Rhymes: -ino
- Syllabification: to‧ci‧no
Noun edit
tocino m (plural tocinos)
Hyponyms edit
- tocino de pavo (“turkey bacon”)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tocino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Noun edit
tocino (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐᜒᜈᜓ)
- Alternative spelling of tosino