croqueta

Borrowed from Spanish croqueta. Doublet of croquette.

croqueta (plural croquetas)

1. A Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.
2. A Spanish croquette, a typical tapas dish.
   • 2007 February 18, “Hail to the Menus”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The restaurant’s croqueta, or savory fritters, are served piping hot, with a molten core.

   • 2011 December 18, Jay Rayner, “Restaurant review: Aurelia”, in The Observer‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Then again this is Mayfair. A big, rustling bowl of deep-fried squid with a salty chilli kick cost £7.50; a generous pile of jamon croquetas, the shells giving way to something creamy and intensely hammy within, was 50p less.

croqueta f (plural croquetes)

1. croquette (food)

Borrowed from French croquette.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kɾuˈkɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kɾoˈkə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kɾoˈke.ta]

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croqueta f (plural croquetes)

1. croquette

• “croqueta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “croqueta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

• cocreta (nonstandard)

Borrowed from French croquette.

• IPA^(key): /kɾoˈketa/ [kɾoˈke.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: cro‧que‧ta

croqueta f (plural croquetas)

1. croquette
2. a piece of kibble (pet food).

• “croqueta”, 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