carabina

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Italian

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Etymology

Borrowed from French carabine.

Noun

carabina f (plural carabine)

  1. (firearms) carbine, rifle

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Latin

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Etymology

From French carabine.

Noun

carabīna f (genitive carabīnae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) carbine

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carabīna carabīnae
Genitive carabīnae carabīnārum
Dative carabīnae carabīnīs
Accusative carabīnam carabīnās
Ablative carabīnā carabīnīs
Vocative carabīna carabīnae

Portuguese

Etymology

From French carabine (“carbine”), from carabin (“dragoon”), from regional escarrabin (“grave digger”), from Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”), from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧bi‧na

Noun

carabina f (plural carabinas)

  1. carbine (short firearm)
  2. rifle
    Synonyms: fuzil, espingarda, escopeta, rifle, refle

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Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French carabine (“carbine”), from Old French carabin (“mounted rifleman”), perhaps from escarrabin (“corpse bearer during the plague”, literally “carrion beetle”), from scarabée (“dung beetle”), from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”), from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɾaˈbina/
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: ca‧ra‧bi‧na

Noun

carabina f (plural carabinas)

  1. carbine (short firearm)
  2. rifle
  3. chaperone

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Descendants

  • → Central Tarahumara: karabina

Further reading

  • “carabina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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