Noun: cangrejo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: can‧gre‧jo
| Singular m | cangrejo |
| Plural m | cangrejos |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cangrejo
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Latin Nouns '
cancer'.
Verbs referencing "cangrejo"
Asturian Nouns
cangrexu.
Translations