cuesco
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of uncertain origin; possibly a Mediterranean loan of sound-symbolic origin (or imitative of hitting a hard object),[1] and cognate with Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “kernel”), though this is rejected by Furnee.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuesco m (plural cuescos)
- stone (of fruit)
- (vulgar, slang) raspberry tart; toot (flatulence)
References
[edit]- ^ “cuesco”, 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
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόκκος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 733
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 449
Further reading
[edit]- “cuesco”, 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
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