anchovy

English

line drawing of a common European anchovy
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Etymology

From SpanishCategory:English terms borrowed from Spanish#ANCHOVYCategory:English terms derived from Spanish#ANCHOVY anchoa, from Genoese LigurianCategory:English terms derived from Ligurian#ANCHOVY anciôa or related CorsicanCategory:English terms derived from Corsican#ANCHOVY anchjuva, anciua. The term's ultimate origin is unclear; some suggest it may have derived from an unattested Vulgar LatinCategory:English terms derived from Vulgar Latin#ANCHOVY term *apiuva, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ANCHOVY aphyē, apua, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#ANCHOVY ἀφύη (aphúē) (which may be formed like Sanskrit अभ्व (ábhva-, “monster”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ANCHOVY);[1] others suggest it comes from BasqueCategory:English terms derived from Basque#ANCHOVY antxu, anchu (“dried fish”), from anchuva (“dry”),[2] if that Basque term is not itself derived from Latin via some intermediary.[3] None of these hypotheses is satisfactory because of the phonetic irregularities.

Pronunciation

Noun

anchovy (plural anchovies)Category:English lemmas#ANCHOVYCategory:English nouns#ANCHOVYCategory:English countable nouns#ANCHOVYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANCHOVYCategory:Pages with entries#ANCHOVYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ANCHOVY

  2. Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in sixteen genera, those of the genus Engraulis being widely sold as food.
    Hypernym: fish
    Coordinate term: sardine
    • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40:
      [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
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  • “anchovy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ↑ Michael Meier-Brügger, “Griechisch ἀφύη ‘Bratfischchen’, ved. ábhva- ‘Unding’, myk. a-phu-”, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 52 (1991): 123–5.
  2. ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “anchovy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  3. ↑ Robert Lawrence Trask, The History of Basque
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