cuero

From Latin corium (“skin, hide, leather”).

cuero m (plural cueros)

1. leather

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cuero”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin corium (“skin; hide, leather”).

Sense 4 probably as an euphemism for cuerpo (“body”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweɾo/ [ˈkwe.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: cue‧ro

cuero m (plural cueros)

1. leather
2. animal skin, hide

   Synonyms: piel, pelleja, pellejo

3. (soccer) football (ball)

   Synonyms: balón, pelota, (soccer) esférico

5. (Latin America, slang) a man or woman's attractive body

   Synonyms: cuerazo, cuerpazo

6. (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, slang) prostitute

   Synonym: prostituta

• “cuero”, 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