cangrejo
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish cangro (“crab”) + -ejo (diminutive ending), with the first element derived from Latin cancer (whence the modern borrowing cáncer). Coromines & Pascual dismiss the possibility of a Vulgar Latin *cancriculus on the grounds that a likelier diminutive at that stage would have been *cancerculus (or the existing Latin cancellus), that there are no native cognates in other Romance languages, and that medieval Spanish had cangro.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kanˈɡɾexo/ [kãŋˈɡɾe.xo]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -exo
- Syllabification: can‧gre‧jo
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Asturian: cangrexu
- → Galician: cangrexo, caranguexo
- → Portuguese: caranguejo
References
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “cangrejo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 806
Further reading
- “cangrejo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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