trabuco

See also: trabucó

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan trabuc (catapult).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾaˈβuko̝/

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

  1. trebuchet
    • 1460, J. A. Souto Cabo (ed.), Crónica de Santa María de Íria. Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 102:
      Et os da eglleia fazian moyto mal cõ huũ trabuquo cõ que tirauã de çima da eglleia: lançaua a pedra fasta a Rrua do Camjño.
      And the ones in the church were causing a lot of damage with a trabuchet with which they shoot from the church's top: it was throwing the stones till the Rúa do Camiño street
  2. a kind of blunderbuss

Etymology 2

From Medieval Galician trabuto (tax).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾaˈβuko̝/

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

  1. (familiar) tax
    Synonym: tributo

References

  • trabuque” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • trabuquo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • trabuco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • trabuco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • trabuco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Provençal trabuc, from Latin trabs (tree trunk, timber, beam).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾa.ˈbu.ku/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾa.ˈbu.ko/

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

  1. trebuchet
  2. a kind of blunderbuss
  3. (derogatory) an ugly woman

Synonyms


Spanish

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

  1. blunderbuss
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