cuño

• cruño

Attested since the 15th century. From Latin cuneus. Cognate with Portuguese cunho and Spanish cuño.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɲo/ [ˈku.ɲʊ]
• Rhymes: -uɲo
• IPA^(key): [ˈkuɲʊ]

cuño m (plural cuños)

1. seal (stamp used to impress)

   Synonym: selo

2. seal (impression)
   • 1419, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 200:

     quatro florĩis d'ouro do cuño d'Aragon

     four gold florins of the seal of Aragon

   Synonym: selo

3. alternative form of cuña

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cuño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cuño”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cruño”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cuño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cuño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cuño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɲo/ [ˈku.ɲo]
• Rhymes: -uɲo
• Syllabification: cu‧ño

Inherited from Latin cuneus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”). Compare Sicilian cugnu.

cuño m (plural cuños)

1. (technical) stamp, die-stamp
2. (figuratively) stamp, mark

cuño

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuñar

• “cuño”, 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