cerracatín

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic سَرَّاق التِّين (sarrāq at-tīn, “thief of figs”).

Adjective

cerracatín (feminine cerracatina, masculine plural cerracatines, feminine plural cerracatinas)

1. miserly

   Synonym: tacaño

Further reading

• “cerracatín”, 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