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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: la‧cra
- Rhymes: -akɾɐ
Verb
lacra
- inflection of lacrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlakɾa/
- Rhymes: -akɾa
- Syllabification: la‧cra
Etymology 1
Probably from lacre (“sealing wax, resin”), referring to the scars left over after being lashed.
Noun
lacra f (plural lacras)
- (medicine) scar, trace
- (figurative) fault, bane; blot
2018 December 8, Ignacio Garriga, quotee, “Ignacio, "harto" de ser el negro catalán de Vox: "Soy español. Eso es racismo"”, in El Español, retrieved 2021-02-01:El Procés es la gran lacra que ha fagocitado todos los problemas de los catalanes.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
Verb
lacra
- inflection of lacrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
- ^ 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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