trabuco

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See also: trabucó

Catalan

Verb

trabuco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

Galician

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan trabuc (“catapult”).

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

  1. trebuchet
    • 1460, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 102:
      Et os da eglleia fazian moyto mal cõ huũ trabuquo cõ que tirauã de çima da eglleia: lançaua a pedra fasta a Rrua do Camjño.
      And the ones in the church were causing a lot of damage with a trabuchet with which they shoot from the church's top: it was throwing the stones till the Rúa do Camiño street
  2. a kind of blunderbuss
    • 1808, anonymous author, Un labrador que foi sarxento:
      Salirán cando volvades,
      Para traervos en trunfo
      Con gaitas e con ferreñas,
      Todal as Mozas de rumbo.
      Veredes como se botan
      Todal as Vellas de bruzos
      Para darvos moitos bicos
      Por pés, por pernas, e muslos.
      Cada Escarapela vosa
      Dirán que val un escudo
      E para gardal a casa
      Tanto coma un bon trabuco.
      They'll come out on your return
      to bring you in triumph
      with bagpipes and jingles,
      all the girls along the way.
      You'll see how
      all the old ladies lie face down
      To give many kisses
      on your feet, legs and thighs.
      Each one of your cockades
      worths a shield, they'll say,
      and for guarding the house,
      as much as a good blunderbuss

Etymology 2

Attested since 1697. From Medieval Galician trabuto (“tax”).

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

  1. (informal) tribute, tax
    Synonym: tributo
    • 1697, Juan Correa Mendoza, Romanze Gallego:
      Libertounos de trabucos, / Dalcauelas, è de peytos,
      He freed us of tributes, charges and taxes

Etymology 3

Verb

trabuco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From Provençal trabuc, from Latin trabs (“tree trunk, timber, beam”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

  1. trebuchet
    Coordinate terms: catapulta, manganela, onagro
  2. blunderbuss
    Synonym: bacamarte
  3. (derogatory) an ugly woman
    Synonyms: tribufu, baranga
  4. (Brazil, humorous) any large and heavy gun, specially a revolver

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾaˈbuko/
  • Rhymes: -uko
  • Syllabification: tra‧bu‧co

Etymology 1

Deverbal from trabucar.

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

  1. trebuchet
  2. blunderbuss
    • 1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra:
      No está en mi carácter lanzarme a la calle trabuco en mano, en día de asonada. No sirvo para eso. Los tiros me ponen nervioso.
      It's not in my character to jump into the street holding a blunderbuss on the day of a riot. I'm useless at that. Shooting makes me jumpy.

Etymology 2

Verb

trabuco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

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