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cangrejo.

crab

8 characters3 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/kanˈɡɾexo/[kãŋˈɡɾe.xo]
  1. crab

    masculine
Where this word comes from

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.

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