a cone made of paper or other material and used to contain candy or other small items; an elongated, pointed hood draped in cloth, traditionally worn by some participants of Holy Week processions in several Hispanic countries; the highest part of a tree, house, building, etc.; a cone-shaped hill; summit (of a hill or mountain)
“Un momento después, Phoebe volvía, tratando de pasar desapercibida, por el mismo camino que había recorrido antes, llevando un diminuto cucurucho de papel con las golosinas que había comprado y el primer sabor de chocolate en la lengua.” — A moment later, Phoebe returned, trying not to be noticed, through the same path she had gone through before, carrying a small paper cone with the candy she had bought and the first taste of chocolate in the tongue.
Synonyms: cima, pico, cumbre
From dialectal Italian cucuruccio (“conical hood, cone”), from an intermediate Vulgar Latin *cuculullius (“cone, cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood, cowl, conical wrapper”). Shared origin with English cowl. An ultimate Celtic origin, either borrowed from, into, or influencing the Vulgar Latin form is also sometimes suggested (cf. Irish cochull (“hood”)).