queque
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ki/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ke/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.kɨ/
- Hyphenation: que‧que
Synonyms
- (Brazil, muffin): bolo inglês
Spanish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkeke/ [ˈke.ke]
- Rhymes: -eke
- Syllabification: que‧que
Noun
queque m (plural queques)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “queque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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