longaniza
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English
Noun
longaniza (plural longanizas)
- A type of Spanish sausage.
Old Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin lūcānica, from lūcānicus, from Lūcānia + -icus.
Noun
longaniza f (plural longanizas)
- sausage
- a. 1454, Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, compiler, Refranes que dizen las viejas tras el fuego, page 11; republished as Hugo Oscar Bizzarri, editor, Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 1995, →ISBN, page 107, line 669:
- Tarde vino el gato con la longariza.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- Spanish: longaniza
- → Cebuano: longganisa
- → English: longaniza
- → Tagalog: longganisa
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *lucanicĭa, from Latin lūcānica, influenced by longus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /lonɡaˈniθa/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /lonɡaˈnisa/
- Rhymes: -iθa
- Rhymes: -isa
- Syllabification: lon‧ga‧ni‧za
Noun
longaniza f (plural longanizas)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Cebuano: longganisa
- → English: longaniza
- → Tagalog: longganisa
Further reading
- “longaniza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28