cartucho

Portuguese

Etymology

From French cartouche (“cartouche”), from Italian cartoccio (“paper bag, cartouche”), from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “to scratch, to inscribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to scratch”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈtu.ʃu/ [kahˈtu.ʃu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈtu.ʃu/ [kahˈtu.ʃu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈtu.ʃu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈtu.ʃu/ [kaχˈtu.ʃu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaɻˈtu.ʃo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈtu.ʃu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈtu.ʃu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈtu.t͡ʃu/

• Rhymes: -uʃu
• Hyphenation: car‧tu‧cho
• Homophone: cartuxo

Noun

cartucho m (plural cartuchos)

1. (firearms) cartridge
2. cartridge (vessel which contains the ink for a computer printer)
3. (video games) cartridge

   Synonym: fita

4. (Brazil, slang) connections

Derived terms

• cartucheira
• cartuchinho
• queimar o último cartucho

Descendants

• → Gujarati: કારતૂસ (kārtūs)
• → Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)

  Hindi: कारतूस (kārtūs)

  Urdu: کارْتُوس (kārtūs)

• → Konkani: कारतूश (kārtūś)
• → Marathi: कारतुस (kārtus), काडतुस (kāḍtus)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈtut͡ʃo/ [kaɾˈt̪u.t͡ʃo]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -utʃo
• Syllabification: car‧tu‧cho

Noun

cartucho m (plural cartuchos)

1. (firearms) cartridge
2. (computing) cartridge
3. ink cartridge
4. (Egyptian hieroglyphs) cartouche

Derived terms

• cartucho de fogueo
• cartuchón
• quemar el último cartucho

Descendants

• → Catalan: cartutx

Further reading

• “cartucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024