carrasco

See also: Carrasco

Galician

Carrasco

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈrasko/ [kɑˈras̺.kʊ]
  • Rhymes: -asko
  • Hyphenation: ca‧rras‧co

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

  1. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)

Derived terms

See also

References

  • carras” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • carrasco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • carrasco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • carrasco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “carrasca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

FWOTD – 9 May 2015

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʁas.ku/ [kaˈhas.ku]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /kaˈʁaʃ.ku/ [kaˈχaʃ.ku]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʁas.ko/ [kaˈhas.ko]

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃku, (most of Brazil) -asku, (Southern Brazil) -asko
  • Hyphenation: carrasco

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root, or perhaps from Latin cerrus (Turkey oak) + -asco.

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

  1. holm oak (Quercus ilex, a tree of the Mediterranean)
    Synonyms: carrasca, azinheira
  2. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)
    Synonym: pinheiro-carrasco

Etymology 2

Named after Portuguese executioner Belchior Nunes Carrasco.

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

  1. executioner (person who carries out a capital punishment)
    Synonyms: executor, algoz, verdugo, castigador
    • 2010, Gabriel Lacerda, Agir bem é bom, Senac, page 83:
      Se vivesse em um país onde a pena de morte é legal, você aceitaria a profissão de carrasco?
      If you lived in a country where the death penalty is legal, would you accept to work as an executioner?
  2. (figurative) a very cruel person
    • 2005, Paulo Markun, O melhor do Roda Viva, Conex, page 73:
      Quem lê a biografia dela vai sentir a pressão que houve por ela ter avaliado o Eichmann, um carrasco dos judeus, como um burocrata que cumpriu aquela missão.
      Those who read her biography will feel the pressure that happened due to her having evaluated Eichmann, a cruel person for the Jews, as a bureaucrat who carried that mission out.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈrasko/ [kaˈras.ko]
  • Rhymes: -asko
  • Syllabification: ca‧rras‧co

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

  1. Aleppo pine
    Synonym: pino carrasco
  2. (Bolivia, Ecuador) A broad region of woody scrubland
  3. Alternative form of carrasca

Derived terms

Further reading

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