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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkuʝo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkuʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkuʒo/
- Rhymes: -uʝo
- Syllabification: cu‧yo
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish cuyo, from Latin cuius, genitive of quī (“who, which”, interrogative and relative pronoun). Secondarily developed grammatical agreement with the thing possessed, thereby becoming a determiner rather than a pronoun in the strict sense. The grammatical agreement is attested in Plautus and classical Latin texts, though uncommonly.
Determiner
cuyo m sg (feminine cuya, masculine plural cuyos, feminine plural cuyas)
- whose
la mujer cuyos hijos son cocineros- the woman whose sons are cooks
1605, Cervantes,
Don Quixote 1.1:
- En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme
- In some place of La Mancha, whose name I don't want to remember
Etymology 2
From cuy + -o, cf. pijuyo.
Noun
cuyo m (plural cuyos)
- (El Salvador) Alternative form of cuy
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