carbunco

Galician

Noun

carbunco f (plural carbuncos)

Alternative form of carbúnculo

Spanish

Etymology

From an earlier carbunclo, borrowed from Latin carbunculus (“little coal”), metonymically referring to an abscess. Compare English carbuncle.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaɾˈbunko/ [kaɾˈβ̞ũŋ.ko]
Rhymes: -unko
Syllabification: car‧bun‧co

Noun

carbunco m (plural carbuncos)

(pathology) anthrax
Synonym: ántrax maligno
(Costa Rica) fire beetle

Descendants

→ Tagalog: karbungko

Further reading

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

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