Masculine
puerco
Frequency
Hyphenated as
puer‧co
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpweɾko/
Etymology
In summary
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.
Schwein
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