olluco
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈʝuko/ [oˈʝu.ko] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /oˈʎuko/ [oˈʎu.ko] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /oˈʃuko/ [oˈʃu.ko] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /oˈʒuko/ [oˈʒu.ko] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -uko
- Syllabification: o‧llu‧co
Noun
olluco m (plural ollucos)
- Ullucus tuberosus, the ulluco
- 2015 October 30, “La huella latina en España”, in El País[1]:
- Quién sabe, quizá dentro de unas décadas la pasta de ají amarillo, limo y rocoto, los moles, el olluco y el achiote, la salsa de anticuchos y el aderezo especiado de los adobos serranos formarán parte de nuestro recetario doméstico, o cuando menos de nuestro registro cotidiano de sabores familiares.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- → English: ulluco
Further reading
- “olluco”, 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
- olluco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es