maçarico
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Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -iku
- Hyphenation: ma‧ça‧ri‧co
Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain.[1] Nascentes proposes that the term comes from a metathesis of *maracico, from Spanish moracico (“sandpiper”), from Celtic môrbik (“sea bird”), being first attested in c. 13th century.[2] Compare Galician mazarico and Asturian mazaricu.
Noun
[edit]maçarico m (plural maçaricos)
- torch, blowtorch
- burner
- sandpiper (any bird of the family Scolopacidae)
- Synonym: batuíra
- ibis (any bird of the subfamily Threskiornithinae)
- (colloquial) any water bird with long, slender legs
- (Portugal) leveret with a white spot on the forehead
- (Portugal, informal) novice
- (Portugal, military, slang) recruit
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]maçarico
References
[edit]- ^ “maçarico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- ^ Antenor Nascentes (1955) “MAÇARICO”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa (in Portuguese), 2 edition, volume I, Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Acadêmica, page 308
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