tocino
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tocino (literally “bacon”).
Noun
tocino (uncountable)
- (Philippines) sweetened and cured pork belly
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”). Compare Spanish tocino and Galician touciño.
Pronunciation
Noun
tocino m (plural tocinos or tocins)
Cebuano
Noun
tocino
- Nonstandard spelling of tosino.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tuccinum (lardum) (“bacon lard”), from Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”), from tucca (“liquid lard”), a word said to be of Celtic origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-, related to Latin turgēre. The ending was influenced by the end of cecina (“sausage”). Compare Galician touciño and Portuguese toucinho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /toˈθino/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /toˈsino/
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -ino
- Syllabification: to‧ci‧no
Noun
tocino m (plural tocinos)
Hyponyms
- tocino de pavo (“turkey bacon”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tocino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Anagrams
Tagalog
Noun
tocino (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐᜒᜈᜓ)
- Alternative spelling of tosino