trasno

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Galician

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trasno

Alternative forms

tardo, trasgo

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Latin trānsgredior (“I cross over (fig., the law)”).^[1] Cognate of Portuguese trasgo, Asturian trasgu, Spanish trasgo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

trasno m (plural trasnos)

(Iberian folklore, mythology, fantasy) A mischievous mythological creature, usually domestic and similar to a goblin or brownie, other times more similar to a nightmare, found in the legends of the North and West of the Iberian peninsula
a demon
- 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:
  Máis que digan que este mundo
  Foi e será un bandallo,
  Decote detras da porta
  Non hemos de ver o trasno;
  No matter how much they say that this world
  was and is a calamity,
  Not always are we to see
  the demon behind the door
(figurative) a roguish child

Derived terms

trasnada (“mischief, trick”)

References

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trasno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trasno”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trasno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tardo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trasgo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “trasgo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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