cogollo
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin cucullus. Cognate with English cowl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈɡoʝo/ [koˈɣ̞o.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /koˈɡoʎo/ [koˈɣ̞o.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /koˈɡoʃo/ [koˈɣ̞o.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /koˈɡoʒo/ [koˈɣ̞o.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -oʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -oʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -oʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -oʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: co‧go‧llo
Noun
cogollo m (plural cogollos)
- lettuce (or other vegetable) heart
- (botany) shoot
- 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael[1], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:
- el cogollo de palma
- the palm shoot
- (botany) top portion of a tree
- nub; crux
- clique; select group
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Further reading
- “cogollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025