🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

cucharadita

Pronunciation / Transliteration: koo-cha-ra-dee-ta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Teaspoon/ˈtiːspuːn/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #2500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Ella añadió una cucharadita de azúcar a su té."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee, or for serving sugar or other condiments.

    "She added a teaspoon of sugar to her tea."
  2. 2

    A unit of measurement in cooking, equivalent to about 5 milliliters.

    "The recipe calls for one teaspoon of salt."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'teaspoon' originates from the combination of 'tea', which comes from the Chinese word 't'e', and 'spoon', derived from the Old English 'spōn', meaning a chip or splinter of wood. The term began to be used in the 18th century to denote a small spoon used for stirring tea.

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