loco

es-adj

loco (feminine loca, masculine plural locos, feminine plural locas, superlative loquísimo)

loca (feminine)
locos (masculine plural)
locas (feminine plural)
loquísimo (superlative)

→ English: loco

→ Swedish: loco

→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: luco

Uncertain.
Inherited from Old Spanish loco, perhaps from Andalusian Arabic لَوْقَاء (láwqa), from Arabic لَوْقَاء (lawqāʔ), feminine singular form of أَلْوَق (ʔalwaq, “stupid”), by reinterpreting the final Andalusian Arabic -a as the Ibero-Romance -a and back-forming the masculine with -o. Edward Roberts thinks the term is related to Arabic لَاق (lāq, “to soften”), but this verb is of root l-y-q, not l-w-q like أَلْوَق (ʔalwaq). Alternatively, derived from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “clear”). Compare Portuguese louco and Sicilian loccu.

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Tuviste una suerte loca al ganar la rifa.

You had some huge luck when winning the raffle.

Los arbustos se ven locos, deberías podarlos.

The bushes look overgrown now, you should trim them.

El cabello se te ve loco, ve a cortártelo.

Your hair looks overgrown, go get a haircut.


loco

es-noun

loco m (plural locos, feminine loca, feminine plural locas)

locos (plural)
loca (feminine)
locas (feminine plural)

a plant in the genus Astragalus or Oxytropis


loco

(Chile) Chilean edible gastropod mollusk that resembles abalone but is, in fact, a muricid (Concholepas concholepas)


langosta

Inherited from Old Spanish langosta, from Vulgar Latin lacusta, from Latin locusta.


gamba

Borrowed from Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin gammarus, cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros).


jaiba

(Dominican Republic) a crab of the species Epilobocera haytensis


navaja

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *navācla, from Latin novācula (“razor”), from Proto-Italic *(ks)nowātlā. Compare Portuguese navalha, Galician navalla.

razor shell, razor clam (edible clam of genus Ensis)


pulpo

Inherited from Latin polypus (“cuttlefish, polyp”) (compare Catalan polp, pop, French poulpe, Galician polbo, Italian polpo, Portuguese polvo), from a variant of Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, literally “many footed”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of pólipo.


geoduck

Unadapted borrowing from English geoduck, from Lushootseed gʷídəq.


almeja

Probably from Arabic الْمَحَار (al-maḥār). Compare Portuguese amêijoa.


espeto

Probably from Gothic *𐍃𐍀𐌹𐍄𐌿𐍃 (*spitus), from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod”); alternatively from a Gothic or Suevic form derived from Proto-Germanic *speutą (“spear”). Cognate with Portuguese espeto and Spanish espeto. Compare also English spit and Swedish spett.


camarón

From cámaro, from Latin cammarus. Compare Portuguese camarão.

camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente


pescado

From Latin piscātus, perfect passive participle of piscor (“to fish”).


vieira

Borrowed from Galician vieira, from Medieval Latin conchula veneria, from Latin Venus.
Doublet of venera.


ostra

Borrowed from Portuguese ostra, inherited from Latin ostrea.


cangrejo

→ Asturian: cangrexu

→ Galician: cangrexo, caranguexo

→ Portuguese: caranguejo

From Old Spanish cangro (“crab”) + -ejo (diminutive ending), with the first element derived from Latin cancer (whence the modern borrowing cáncer). Coromines & Pascual dismiss the possibility of a Vulgar Latin *cancriculus on the grounds that a likelier diminutive at that stage would have been *cancerculus (or the existing Latin cancellus), that there are no native cognates in other Romance languages, and that medieval Spanish had cangro.


mariscal

es-noun

mariscal m (plural mariscales, feminine mariscal, feminine plural mariscales)

mariscales (plural)
mariscal (feminine)
mariscales (feminine plural)

→ Catalan: mariscal

Borrowed from Old French mariscal, from Frankish *marhaskalk (“equerry”), from *marh (“horse”) + *skalk (“servant”), from Proto-Germanic *marhaz + *skalkaz.


calamar

Borrowed from Catalan calamar, itself borrowed from Italian calamaro, from Latin calamārius, an adjective based on Latin calamus, a borrowing from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).


percebe

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pollicipedem, attested also in Medieval Latin. From Latin pollicem (“thumb”) + pēs (“foot”) (genitive singular pedis).


berberecho

→ Catalan: berberetxo

From Ancient Greek βέρβερι (bérberi, “pearl oyster”) or perhaps from a substrate language; otherwise from berbecho (“cockle; goatee”), from a local Vulgar Latin *berbēcclus < *berbēciclus, a diminutive of Latin berbēx ("ram", compare Spanish carnero (“warty venus ((Venus verrucosa); cockle”, literally “ram”))). In any case, related to Portuguese berbigão.


mejillón

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Borrowed from Portuguese mexilhão or from Galician mexillón.


macha

an edible razor clam of species Ensis macha


choro

Borrowed from Quechua churu (“elegant person”).


cigala

Nephrops norvegicus
Nephrops norvegicus#Translingual


cochayuyo

From Quechua kocha (“lagoon”) + yuyu (“vegetable”).


picoroco

(Chile, Peru) edible South American barnacle Austromegabalanus psittacus


marisco

From mar (“sea”) + -isco. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese marisco.


langostino

→ English: langostino


anchoa

→ Asturian: anchoa

→ Basque: antxoa

→ Catalan: anxova

→ Spanish: anjova

→ Galician: anchoa

desctree

→ Dutch: ansjovis
Afrikaans: ansjovis
→ Danish: ansjos
→ Estonian: anšoovis
→ Faroese: ansjós
→ German: Anchovis, Anschovis
→ Hebrew: אַנְשׁוֹבִי (anshóvi)
→ Icelandic: ansjósa
→ Latvian: anšovs
→ Lithuanian: ančiuvis
→ Norwegian: ansjos
→ Papiamentu: anchóvis, ansjovis
→ Russian: анчо́ус (ančóus)
→ Armenian: անչոուս (ančʻous)
→ Azerbaijani: ançous
→ Karelian: ančoussu
→ Swedish: ansjovis
→ West Frisian: ansjofisk

→ English: anchovy

→ Esperanto: anĉovo

→ Irish: ainseabhaí

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→ Japanese: アンチョビ (anchobi), アンチョビー (anchobī)

→ Korean: 안초비 (anchobi)

→ Manx: ançhovee

→ Persian: آنچوی (ânčovi)

→ Portuguese: anchova, enchova

→ Sicilian: anciova, ancioa

→ Arabic: أَنْشُوفة (ʔanšūfa)

→ Arabic: أَنْشُوفة (ʔanšūfa)

Borrowed from Ligurian anciôa, from Vulgar Latin *apiuva, from Latin aphyē (“small fry”), from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē). Doublet of anjova.


ostión

(Mexico) oyster (particularly from genus Crassostrea), specially when prepared or served for food


abulón

→ English: abalone

Borrowed from Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”) or a neighboring language.


chopo

Inherited from Old Spanish, possibly through an earlier form *llopo, from Vulgar Latin *plōppus, with metathesis from Latin pōpulus. Likely influenced by Portuguese choupo, if not simply borrowed from it.

Coordinate term: álamo

Populus nigra
Populus nigra#Translingual

A poplar tree, often the black poplar (Populus nigra)


chopo

(Andalusia) Alternative form of choco (“species of squid or cuttlefish”)


patarashca

Como dos apuestas exóticas, la patarashca de dorado y el abruto de paiche con puré aguaje, elaboradas con pescados de río.

2015 October 30, “Perú en cinco restaurantes limeños”, in El País:

a dish from Peru, in which a fish wrapped in leaves is cooked on hot coals


pescadilla

Merlangius merlangus
Merlangius merlangus#Translingual

fried fish taco (using whiting, tuna, red snapper, cod, etc.)


bienmesabe

Univerbation of bien + me + sabe, literally “it tastes good to me”.

univerbation

(Spain) a dish of fried dogfish, typical of Cádiz


ceviche volquetero

es-noun

ceviche volquetero m (plural ceviches volqueteros)

Cebiche volquetero: chochos con atún, chifles y ensalada de cebolla con tomate.

2012, Marlene Jaramillo G., Texto de Guìa de Cocina Ecuatoriana, →ISBN, page 102:

Volquetero ceviche: lupin beans with tuna, chifles [fried green plantain], and salad with onion and tomato.

an Ecuadorian ceviche dish made with tuna