cuchara

A spoon; a utensil with a small bowl-shaped end and a handle, used for eating, serving, or stirring food.

Etymology

From Latin cochleāre, meaning a spoon or implement for eating shellfish, ultimately related to cochlea, “snail shell.”

Collocations

A spoonful; the amount that a spoon can hold, especially in cooking or serving.

Etymology

From the utensil sense of cuchara, by extension to the quantity it contains.

Collocations

The scoop or bucket of an excavator, loader, dredge, or similar machine.

Etymology

By metaphorical extension from the shape and function of a spoon.

Collocations

A mason’s trowel; a flat hand tool used for spreading, shaping, or smoothing mortar, cement, or plaster.

Etymology

By extension from cuchara because of the tool’s broad, scooping shape.

Collocations