cuyo

Spanish

Pronunciation
 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkuʝo/ [ˈku.ʝo]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkuʃo/ [ˈku.ʃo]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkuʒo/ [ˈku.ʒo]

  • (Latin America)
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  • Rhymes: -uʝo
  • Syllabification: cu‧yo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish cuyo, from Latin cuius, genitive of quī (“who, which”, interrogative and relative pronoun). Secondarily developed grammatical agreement with the thing possessed, thereby becoming a determiner rather than a pronoun in the strict sense. The grammatical agreement is attested in Plautus and classical Latin texts, though uncommonly.

Determiner

cuyo m sg (feminine cuya, masculine plural cuyos, feminine plural cuyas)

  1. whose
    la mujer cuyos hijos son cocineros
    the woman whose sons are cooks
    • 1605, Cervantes, Don Quixote 1.1:
      En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme […]
      In some place of La Mancha, whose name I don't want to remember […]

Etymology 2

From cuy +‎ -o, cf. pijuyo.

Noun

cuyo m (plural cuyos)

  1. (El Salvador) Alternative form of cuy

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