Noun: puerco
Gender: m
Hyphenation: puer‧co
| Singular m | puerco |
| Singular f | puerca |
| Plural m | puercos |
| Plural f | puercas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like puerco
botellero,
paletero,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
gibareño,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
evacuado,
subprefecto,
miliciano,
gibelino,
moguereño,
angloamericano,
sereno,
serbio,
gregario,
seboso,
sedero,
cristiano,
babilonio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Spanish puerco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).
2. The "police officer" slang sense is apparently a semantic loan from English pig. See: Latin Nouns '
porcus'.
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