longaniza

From Spanish longaniza. Doublet of linguica and longganisa.

longaniza (usually uncountable, plural longanizas)

1. A type of Spanish sausage.

   Synonym: longganisa (Philippines)

   • 2021 February 27, Rebecca King, “Bountiful Bergenfield”, in Daily Record, volume 34, number 92, Rockaway, N.J., →OCLC, page 2D, column 1:

     Cusinera serves stupendous silog (traditional Filipino breakfast, $5.61) — eggs with garlic rice and a protein of your choice, such as daing (crispy dried fish), longaniza (juicy, garlicky pork sausage) and tapa (cured beef steak).

Inherited from Latin lūcānica, from lūcānicus, from Lūcānia + -icus.

longaniza f (plural longanizas)

1. sausage
   • a. 1454, Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, compiler, Refranes que dizen las viejas tras el fuego, page 11; republished as Hugo Oscar Bizzarri, editor, Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 1995, →ISBN, page 107, line 669:

     Tarde vino el gato con la longariza.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Spanish: longaniza
  • → Cebuano: longganisa
  • → English: longaniza
  • → Tagalog: longganisa

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *lucanicĭa, from Latin lūcānica, influenced by longus.

• IPA^(key): /lonɡaˈniθa/ [lõŋ.ɡaˈni.θa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /lonɡaˈnisa/ [lõŋ.ɡaˈni.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iθa (Spain)
• Rhymes: -isa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: lon‧ga‧ni‧za

longaniza f (plural longanizas)

1. pork sausage

   Synonym: chorizo

2. (slang) wiener, dick (penis)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

• → Cebuano: longganisa
• → English: longaniza
• → Tagalog: longganisa

• “longaniza”, 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