tocino

Borrowed from Spanish tocino (literally “bacon”).

tocino (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) sweetened and cured pork belly

From Latin tuccētum (“pork conserved in brine”). Compare Spanish tocino and Galician touciño.

• IPA^(key): /toˈθino/
• IPA^(key): /toˈsino/ (Benasquese)
• Syllabification: to‧ci‧no
• Rhymes: -ino

tocino m (plural tocinos or tocins)

1. pig

   Synonym: cochín

2. lard

   Synonyms: blanco, lardo

tocino

1. nonstandard spelling of tosino

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.

• IPA^(key): /toˈθino/ [t̪oˈθi.no] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /toˈsino/ [t̪oˈsi.no] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: to‧ci‧no

tocino m (plural tocinos)

1. bacon

   Synonyms: beicon, tocineta

2. salt pork

• “tocino”, 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

• tónico

tocino (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐᜒᜈᜓ)

1. alternative spelling of tosino