longaniza

English

Etymology

From Spanish longaniza. Doublet of linguiça.

Noun

longaniza (plural longanizas)

1. A type of Spanish sausage.

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lūcānica, from lūcānicus, from Lūcānia + -icus.

Noun

longaniza f (plural longanizas)

1. 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/ [lõŋ.ɡaˈni.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /lonɡaˈnisa/ [lõŋ.ɡaˈni.sa]
• Rhymes: -iθa
• Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: lon‧ga‧ni‧za

Noun

longaniza f (plural longanizas)

1. pork sausage

   Synonym: chorizo

2. (slang) wiener, dick (penis)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

Derived terms

• atar los perros con longaniza

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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10