is this word Spanish or Italian?

the word is "choncito"

I'd assume Spanish... I think "-ito" is a dimunitive in Spanish where the Italian equivalent would be "-ino." Although "-ito" appears in Italian, it's more frequent in Spanish.

This is just with my limited knowledge of these languages, but I'd assume Spanish.

Very clever is your name is ";" and you speak Greek. It means "piglet" in Spanish afaik. Context is always nice.

It has to be Spanish, because Italian doesn't have "ch" before "o". Ch before i or e is pronounced as /k/, whereas c is pronounced as /tS/. C before o and other vowels is pronounced as /k/.

that was somebody's username... the first word of it had to do with food :O

Piglet? Like in Winnie-ille-Pu?

It's not Italian, that's for sure. The word sounds typically Spanish but I have never heard it

The Spanish diminutive -ITO is often equivalent to the Italian -INO or -ETTO

casita = casetta
pajarito = uccellino

Hola Chon? .
I've seen in my dictionary that the word 'chon' comes from Dominican Republic and means: godsend.

So I guess that 'choncito' means 'little godsend'.


Hope it helps.

<<Although "-ito" appears in Italian, it's more frequent in Spanish.
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<<The Spanish diminutive -ITO is often equivalent to the Italian -INO or -ETTO
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'-ito' in Italian is usually the past participle ending (cf "incognito"), not the diminutive ending

I have not found the word in a dictionary, so I can't verify that "piglet" is absolutely correct. You could ask in the forums at wordreference.

Appart from -ito, Spanish also has many other diminutives: -ino, -in, -ico, -illo and many others.

Apart from -ino - etto Italian has got many other diminutives -cino -attolo -ucolo -ettino -uccio -llino - cchiotto -occolo etc

libricino
fiumiciattolo
pochettino
caruccio
fiorellino
orsacchiotto
volpacchiotto
anatroccolo