carrasco
See also: Carrasco
Galician
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈrasko/ [kɑˈras̺.kʊ]
- Rhymes: -asko
- Hyphenation: ca‧rras‧co
Noun
carrasco m (plural carrascos)
- kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)
Derived terms
See also
- Carballo carrasco on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
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.
- 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]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈʁaʃ.ku/
- 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)
- holm oak (Quercus ilex, a tree of the Mediterranean)
- kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)
- Synonym: pinheiro-carrasco
Related terms
- carrascal
- carrascoso
Etymology 2
Named after Portuguese executioner Belchior Nunes Carrasco.
Noun
carrasco m (plural carrascos)
- 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?
- (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)
- Aleppo pine
- Synonym: pino carrasco
- (Bolivia, Ecuador) A broad region of woody scrubland
- Alternative form of carrasca
Derived terms
Further reading
- “carrasco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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