gancho
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Ganchos (clothes hangers).
Galician
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).[1] Doublet of ganzo.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -antʃo
- Hyphenation: gan‧cho
Noun
gancho m (plural ganchos)
Derived terms
- aganchar (“to climb”)
- enganchar (“to hook”)
- ganchelo (“having low horns”)
- ganchudo
- reviragancho (“a curved stroke”, literally “overturning hook”)
Related terms
- ganzo (“twig”)
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gancho”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gancho”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gancho”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “gancho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gancho m (plural ganchos)
- hook; peg; grapple
- (Portugal) hairpin
- (telephony) switchhook
- (narratology) cliffhanger
- (clothing) the central part of a pair of trousers to which the legs are sown
- (boxing) a hook or uppercut
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gancho m (plural ganchos)
- (tools) hook, peg
- (clothing) clothes hanger
- Synonym: percha
- difficult situation
- (boxing) hook
- (boxing) uppercut
- pulling power
- attracting object or argument (true or fraudulent)
- tout
Hyponyms
- gancho al mentón
- gancho de derecha, gancho derecho (“right hook”)
- gancho de izquierda, gancho izquierdo (“left hook”)
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “gancho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
gancho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
