gorgojo

Meaning

1. (masculine) grub
2. (masculine) weevil
3. (colloquial, masculine) small person

Concepts

weevil

grub

dwarf

Chilenean warehouse beetle

shorty

pine weevil

Berlin beetle

Synonyms

picudo

cabrito

🧒

comején

tachuela

billbug

escarabajo del elefante

zancajo

aranita

cabrito de madera

escarabajo destructor

diminutivo gorgojito

persona pequeña

caballito

arrancapinos

Translations

charançon

gorgoglione

snuitkever

tonchio

Rüsselkäfer

corc

🪱

gorgulho

balanino

demi-portion

rase-bitume

pissode

punteruolo

gurgulio

curculio

Rhyephenes humeralis

Hyphenated as

gor‧go‧jo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡoɾˈɡoxo/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: gurguliō

Cognate with Italian: gorgoglione

In summary

Inherited from Latin gurguliō, variant of curculiō. Coromines and Pascual posit a Vulgar Latin *gurgulius, back-derived from the Latin accusative gurguliōnem after speakers interpreted its ending as an augmentative (cf. Spanish -ón). They also acknowledge the possibility that gorgojo was simply inherited from the original Latin nominative. Compare Italian gorgoglione, alongside the Old Italian gorgoglio. For other Spanish animal names that appear to reflect the Latin nominative, cf. drago, pavo, and sierpe.