cangrejo

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Spanish

Etymology

    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

    • IPA(key): /kanˈɡɾexo/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -exo
    • Syllabification: can‧gre‧jo

    Noun

    cangrejo m (plural cangrejos)

    1. crab

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → Asturian: cangrexu
    • → Galician: cangrexo, caranguexo
    • → Portuguese: caranguejo

    See also

    References

    1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cangrejo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 806

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