queso

Borrowed from Spanish queso, as found in Tex-Mex cuisine.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪsoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪsəʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪsəʊ

queso (uncountable)

1. Melted cheese, used for instance as a dipping sauce.

• chili con queso

From Latin cāseum, accusative of cāseus. Cognate with Old Leonese keso and Old Portuguese queijo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈke.zo]

queso m (plural quesos)

1. cheese
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 12v.

     Et ſi la fregan con la leche. lo q́ ende ſale, quaia toda la leche ſobre q́ la pongan ¬ por ende los daq́lla tierra uſan della en ſus q́sos. ¬ en toda otra coſa de leche q́ quieré quaiar.

     And if they wash it with milk, what results from it curdles the milk into which it is put, and so the people of that land use it in their cheeses, or in any other dairy thing they wish to curdle.

• Ladino: kézo
• Spanish: queso
  • Amuzgo: kesò
  • Navajo: géeso
  • Seri: quiiz
  • Tagalog: keso

From Old Spanish queso, from Latin cāseus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwat- (“to ferment”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeso/

queso m (plural quesos)

1. cheese

   Synonym: formaje

2. (Spain, colloquial) foot

(diminutive quesillo or quesito or quesín)

• choriqueso
• dársela con queso
• quesillo
• quesería

• caseoso
• quesadilla
• quesero, quesera
• requesón

• “queso” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.