olluco

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ulluco, milluku, melloco

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua ulluku.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oˈʝuko/ [oˈʝu.ko]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /oˈʝuko/ [oˈʝu.ko]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /oˈʎuko/ [oˈʎu.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /oˈʃuko/ [oˈʃu.ko]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /oˈʒuko/ [oˈʒu.ko]

• Rhymes: -uko
• Syllabification: o‧llu‧co

Noun

olluco m (plural ollucos)

1. Ullucus tuberosus, the ulluco

   Synonyms: chugua, ruba, lisa, papa lisa, papalisa

   • 2015 October 30, “La huella latina en España”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Quién sabe, quizá dentro de unas décadas la pasta de ají amarillo, limo y rocoto, los moles, el olluco y el achiote, la salsa de anticuchos y el aderezo especiado de los adobos serranos formarán parte de nuestro recetario doméstico, o cuando menos de nuestro registro cotidiano de sabores familiares.

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Descendants

• → English: ulluco

Further reading

• “olluco”, 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
• olluco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es