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Portuguese
Etymology
Formed from trapa (“snare, trap”),[1] itself borrowed from French trappe (“trap door, hatch”).[2]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -asɐ
- Hyphenation: tra‧pa‧ça
Noun
trapaça f (plural trapaças)
- a cheating; a swindle
Derived terms
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
- ^ “trapaça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024