cangrejo

== Spanish == === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kanˈɡɾexo/ [kãŋˈɡɾe.xo] Rhymes: -exo Syllabification: can‧gre‧jo === Noun === cangrejo m (plural cangrejos) crab ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Asturian: cangrexu → Galician: cangrexo, caranguexo → Portuguese: caranguejo ==== See also ==== === References === === Further reading === “cangrejo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 “cangrejo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010