gazapo

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ɡaˈθapo/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ɡaˈsapo/
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  • Rhymes: -apo
  • Syllabification: ga‧za‧po

Etymology 1

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Un gazapo en el campo. ― A young rabbit in the countryside.

Unknown, possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. May be derived from Vulgar Latin *captiāre (“hunt”) with a local pre-Roman *-apo diminutive suffix.[1] Cognate with Portuguese caçapo and Catalan catxap.

Noun

gazapo m (plural gazapos, feminine gazapa, feminine plural gazapas)

  1. bunny, young rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Back-formation from gazapatón.

Noun

gazapo m (plural gazapos)

  1. misprint, error
  2. gaffe, blooper, error

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “gazapo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 137–138

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