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tocino

Meaning

  1. (masculine) bacon
  2. (masculine) salt pork

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
to‧ci‧no
Pronounced as (IPA)
/toˈθino/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tuccinum (lardum) (“bacon lard”), from Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”), from tucca (“liquid lard”), a word said to be of Celtic origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-, related to Latin turgēre. The ending was influenced by the end of cecina (“sausage”). Compare Galician touciño and Portuguese toucinho.

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