cangrejo
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Spanish cangro (“crab”) + -ejo (diminutive ending), with the first element derived from Latin cancer (whence the modern borrowing cáncer). Coromines & Pascual dismiss the possibility of a Vulgar Latin *cancriculus on the grounds that a likelier diminutive at that stage would have been *cancerculus (or the existing Latin cancellus), that there are no native cognates in other Romance languages, and that medieval Spanish had cangro.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cangrejo m (plural cangrejos)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Asturian: cangrexu
- → Galician: cangrexo, caranguexo
- → Portuguese: caranguejo
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “cangrejo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 806
Further reading edit
- “cangrejo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014