puerco

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish puerco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpweɾko/, [ˈpweɾ.ko]
• Hyphenation: puer‧co

Noun

puerco

1. pig

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish puerco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

The "police officer" slang sense is apparently a semantic loan from English pig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpweɾko/ [ˈpweɾ.ko]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾko
• Syllabification: puer‧co

Noun

puerco m (plural puercos, feminine puerca, feminine plural puercas)

1. pig

   Synonyms: cerdo, chancho, cocho, cochino, cuchí, gorrino, guarro, marrano

2. pork (the meat of a pig)
3. (slang, derogatory, Mexico) police officer; "pig"

Derived terms

• mal del puerco
• pan de puerco
• puerco no se rasca en javilla
• puerco pibil
• puercoespín
• verdolaga de puerco

 

Related terms

• emporcar
• pocilga
• porcel
• porcino
• porquera
• porquería
• porqueriza
• porquerizo
• porquero
• puerca

 

See also

• jabalí

Further reading

• “puerco”, 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

• cuerpo