tuco

See also: tučo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tuco.

Noun

tuco (uncountable)

2. A tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.
   • 2015, John M. Keller, Abracadabrantesque, New York, N.Y.;  […]: Dr. Cicero Books, →ISBN, page 440:

     We ate ñoqui in a tuco sauce that they'd ordered already prepared, and Soriano and I drank wine, a De Lucca cabernet sauvignon, while Felip didn't drink anything at all […]

   • 2017, Carolyn Caldicott, World Street Food: Easy Recipes for Young Travellers, London: Pimpernel Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 61:

     Customize your tuco sauce: add sliced mushrooms, diced aubergine or sliced spinach, or think of some ideas of your own.

See also

etymologically unrelated

• tuco-tuco

Further reading

• tuco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuko/ [ˈt̪u.ko]

• Audio (Costa Rica):

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• Rhymes: -uko
• Syllabification: tu‧co

Etymology 1

Probably from Latin tucca (sauce). Compare to Italian tocco or Venetan tocio.

Noun

tuco m (plural tucos)

1. tuco

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Adjective

tuco (feminine tuca, masculine plural tucos, feminine plural tucas)

1. (Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Venezuela) one-armed

Noun

tuco m (plural tucos)

1. (Asturias) pork bone, hard thing
2. (Asturias, Guatemala, Honduras, Puerto Rico) stump
3. (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama) piece of wood

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Quechua tucu.

Noun

tuco m (plural tucos)

1. (Argentina) a type of beetle

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Quechua tuku.

Noun

tuco m (plural tucos)

1. (Peru) a kind of owl

Further reading

• “tuco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024