puerco
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Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]puerco
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish puerco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]puerco m (plural puercos, feminine puerca, feminine plural puercas)
- pig
- pork (the meat of a pig)
- (slang, derogatory, Mexico) police officer; "pig"
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[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “puerco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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