culantro
English
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Etymology
editFrom Spanish culantro, whence also the doublet cilantro, which see for more. Both words are doublets of coriander.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editculantro (uncountable)
- The tropical herb Eryngium foetidum, native to Mexico, Central America and South America but cultivated worldwide, used medicinally and in Caribbean cuisine. (See Usage notes below for this sense.)
- Synonyms: (Caribbean) chadon beni, (Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) fitweed
- 2007 January 21, Timothy Williams, “As East Harlem Develops, Its Accent Starts to Change”, in The New York Times[1]:
- A painting of a woman wearing a burgundy shawl over a flamenco-style dress hangs on a wall, and in the garden, tomatoes, peppers, corn and culantro, an herb used in Caribbean cooking, grow in the summer.
- Alternative form of cilantro (the stems and leaves of Coriandrum sativum)
Usage notes
editCulantro, in its primary sense of referring to Eryngium foetidum, is not to be confused with cilantro (Coriandrum sativum), despite being its doublet.
Translations
editEryngium foetidum
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Anagrams
editOld Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editculantro m (plural culantros)
- coriander, cilantro (Coriandrum sativum)
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 17r:
- Clamaron caſado de iſr̃l ſo nõbre magna caera como ſemẏent de culantro blanco. E ſo ſabor como breſcas de myel
- The house of Israel gave it the name manna, because it was like the seed of white coriander, and its taste like that of honeycombs.
Descendants
editSpanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Spanish culantro, from Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editculantro m (plural culantros)
- (Central America, Mexico) culantro (Eryngium foetidum)
- Alternative form of cilantro (Coriandrum sativum)
- (euphemistic, colloquial, Costa Rica, Mexico) butt, buttocks
Derived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “culantro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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