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cucurucho.

a cone made of paper or other material and used to contain candy or other small items

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Meaning & usage

noun/kukuˈɾut͡ʃo/[ku.kuˈɾu.t͡ʃo]
  1. a cone made of paper or other material and used to contain candy or other small items

    masculine
    Los niños salieron de la posada con cucuruchos repletos de golosinas.
  2. an elongated, pointed hood draped in cloth, traditionally worn by some participants of Holy Week processions in several Hispanic countries

    masculine
    Algunos penitentes se vistieron de púrpura y portaron un cucurucho en la cabeza.
  3. the highest part of a tree, house, building, etc.

    Caribbean · Central-America · colloquial · masculine
  4. a cone-shaped hill

    Colombia · Dominican-Republic · Honduras · Nicaragua · Venezuela · colloquial · masculine
  5. summit (of a hill or mountain)

    Costa-Rica · Honduras · colloquial · masculine
Where this word comes from

From dialectal Italian cucuruccio (“conical hood, cone”), from an intermediate Vulgar Latin *cuculullius (“cone, cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood, cowl, conical wrapper”). Shared origin with English cowl. An ultimate Celtic origin, either borrowed from, into, or influencing the Vulgar Latin form is also sometimes suggested (cf. Irish cochull (“hood”)).

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