buraco

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese buraco (13th century), perhaps from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”) or rather from a local derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”) + the suffix -aco, from a pre-Lattin suffix -akko-.[1]

Compare Portuguese buraco, Asturian buracu, furacu. The form furado derives from Latin forātus; compare Catalan forat, Spanish horado, Asturian furáu.

Pronunciation

Noun

buraco m (plural buracos)

  1. hole
  2. pit

Derived terms

References

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Portuguese

Etymology

Of uncertain origin.

Possibly from Old Galician-Portuguese furaco, through Vulgar Latin *foraculum from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”). Compare Galician buraco, furaco, furado, Asturian furacu, buracu, Leonese buraco, and Spanish buraco; cf. also Catalan forat, Spanish horado.

It could instead be from or cognate with Hindi सुराख (surākh, “eyelet”), Persian سوراخ (“orifice”), which are ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱouH-r-o-.[1]

Or, possibly borrowed from Old High German boron (“to bore, drill”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buˈɾa.ku/
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  • Hyphenation: bu‧ra‧co
  • Rhymes: -aku

Noun

buraco m (plural s)

  1. pit; hole (hollow spot in a surface)
  2. burrow (a tunnel or hole dug by a creature)
  3. (figurative, depreciative) a very filthy, crude or precarious house
  4. (billiards, pool, snooker) pocket (cavity with a sack at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table)
  5. hole (an opening in a solid)
  6. (figurative) gap (a vacant time)
  7. (figurative) an emotional gap caused by someone’s death or absence
  8. (slang) a difficult situation financially
  9. (card games) canasta, especially its Brazilian variant

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Related terms

See also

Verb

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References

  1. ^ Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (1988): Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages: From the Portuguese Original of Monsignor Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado, Volume 1, p. 59
  2. ^ Template:R:DAN
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