puerco

From Spanish puerco.

puerco

1. pig

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpweɾko/ [ˈpweɾ.ko]

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• Rhymes: -eɾko
• Syllabification: puer‧co

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"

• jabalí

• “puerco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• cuerpo