merluza
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish merluza.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
merluza f (plural merluzas)
- hake (any of several fish of the genus Merluccius)
Alternative forms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From French merlu, from mer (“sea”) + dialectal luceau (“pike”),[1] from Latin lucius.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾˈluθa/ [meɾˈlu.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /meɾˈlusa/ [meɾˈlu.sa]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -uθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -usa
- Syllabification: mer‧lu‧za
Noun edit
merluza f (plural merluzas)
- any of the fish in the genus Merluccius, all commonly called hakes in English; in Spain especially the European hake, Merluccius merluccius
- (Spain, colloquial) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
- (colloquial, Argentina) cocaine
References edit
Further reading edit
- “merluza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “merluza” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010.