queso
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish queso, as found in Tex-Mex cuisine. Doublet of cheese.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪsoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪsəʊ/
- Rhymes: -eɪsəʊ
NounEdit
queso (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
Old SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cāseum, accusative of cāseus. Cognate with Old Leonese keso and Old Portuguese queijo.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
queso m (plural quesos)
- cheese
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 12v.
- Et ſi la fregan con la leche. lo q́ ende ſale, quaia toda la leche ſobre q́ la pongan ¬ por ende los daq́lla tierra uſan della en ſus q́sos. ¬ en toda otra coſa de leche q́ quieré quaiar.
- And if they wash it with milk, what results from it curdles the milk into which it is put, and so the people of that land use it in their cheeses, or in any other dairy thing they wish to curdle.
- Et ſi la fregan con la leche. lo q́ ende ſale, quaia toda la leche ſobre q́ la pongan ¬ por ende los daq́lla tierra uſan della en ſus q́sos. ¬ en toda otra coſa de leche q́ quieré quaiar.
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 12v.
DescendantsEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish queso, from Latin cāseus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwat- (“to ferment”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
queso m (plural quesos)
- cheese
- Synonym: formaje
- (Spain, colloquial) foot
Derived termsEdit
(diminutive quesillo or quesito or quesín)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
All are borrowed.
Further readingEdit
- “queso” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.