🇪🇸 Spanish

cauchos

masculine

los cauchos

rubbers

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cauchos
/los ˈkautʃos/
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How do you say cauchos in Spanish?

IPA
/los ˈkautʃos/

How do you pronounce cauchos in Spanish?

cauchos is pronounced /los ˈkautʃos/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El caucho natural es más elástico que el caucho sintético.

Natural rubber is more elastic than synthetic rubber.

El caucho brasileño fue muy demandado durante el auge industrial del siglo XX.

Brazilian rubber was highly demanded during the industrial boom of the twentieth century.

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Why is it masculine?

Cauchos (rubber) is masculine. While it does derive from Quechua sources (likely related to indigenous Amazonian languages), the gender is better explained by noting that Spanish typically assigns masculine gender to many loanwords from indigenous American languages, and "caucho" follows this pattern. However, the specific etymology through "cauchuc" and the detailed colonial-period explanation cannot be verified with certainty.

What is the Spanish word for rubbers?

The Spanish word for rubbers is los cauchos — masculine.

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