embuste
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Portuguese
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps inherited from Latin impositum according to 1914’s DRAE, of unknown origin according to recent editions.
Pronunciation
Noun
embuste m (plural embustes)
Further reading
- “embuste”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “embuste”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin impositum according to 1914’s DRAE, of unknown origin according to recent editions.
Noun
embuste m (plural embustes)
- lie, deception, hoax
- 1863, Mariano Velázquez De La Cadena, A New Spanish Reader: Consisting of Passages from the Most Approved Authors in Prose and Verse..., page 240:
- Mentira explica sólo la idea de una cosa falsa: embuste, supone además de la falsedad la malicia; porque nadie dice un embuste de buena fe.
- "Mentira" indicates only the idea of something false: embuste implies malice in addition to the falsehood; thus, no-one tells an embuste in good faith.
- (in the plural) trinkets
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
embuste
- inflection of embustir:
Further reading
- “embuste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10