trapaça

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Formed from trapa (snare, trap),[1] itself borrowed from French trappe (trap door, hatch).[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

 

  • Rhymes: -asɐ
  • Hyphenation: tra‧pa‧ça

Noun[edit]

trapaça f (plural trapaças)

  1. a cheating; a swindle

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  2. ^ trapaça” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.