cangrejo
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish cangro (“crab”) + -ejo (diminutive suffix), with the first element derived from Latin cancer. Coromines and Pascual dismiss the possibility of a Vulgar Latin *cancriculus on the grounds that a likelier diminutive would have been *cancerculus, that there are no native cognates in other Romance languages, and that Old Spanish's sole word for crab was cangro.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kanˈɡɾexo/ [kãŋˈɡɾe.xo]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -exo
- Syllabification: can‧gre‧jo
Noun
cangrejo m (plural cangrejos)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Asturian: cangrexu
- → Galician: cangrexo, caranguexo
- → Portuguese: caranguejo
See also
References
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cangrejo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 806
Further reading
- “cangrejo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- “cangrejo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010