carbunco
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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
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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28