conejo

See also: Conejo and conéjo

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish conejo, from Latin cuniculus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koˈnexo/ [koˈne.xo]
(Castilian)
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -exo
Syllabification: co‧ne‧jo

Noun

conejo m (plural conejos, feminine coneja, feminine plural conejas)

rabbit, cony, coney (male or unspecified sex)
Synonym: ñeco

Hypernym: lagomorfo

Hyponym: gazapo
(Central America) detective
Synonym: detective
(Mexico, anatomy) a contracted biceps (having athletic or semi-athletic features, specially when exhibiting, intentionally or not)
(vulgar, slang) cunt (female genitalia)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

liebre

Derived terms

Descendants

Papiamentu: koneu
→ Asturian: conexu
→ Cebuano: koneho
→ Galician: conexo
→ Quechua: kunu
→ Tagalog: kuneho

Further reading

“conejo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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