embuste

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin impositum according to 1914’s DRAE, of unknown origin according to recent editions.

Noun

embuste m (plural embustes)

1. a scam or hoax

   Synonyms: ardil, truque

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emˈbuste/ [ẽmˈbus.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -uste
• Syllabification: em‧bus‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin impositum according to 1914’s DRAE, of unknown origin according to recent editions.

Noun

embuste m (plural embustes)

1. lie, deception, hoax

   Synonyms: mentira, grupo

   • 1863, Mariano Velázquez De La Cadena, A New Spanish Reader: Consisting of Passages from the Most Approved Authors in Prose and Verse..., page 240:

     Mentira explica sólo la idea de una cosa falsa: embuste, supone además de la falsedad la malicia; porque nadie dice un embuste de buena fe.

     "Mentira" indicates only the idea of something false: embuste implies malice in addition to the falsehood; thus, no-one tells an embuste in good faith.

2. (in the plural) trinkets

Derived terms

• embustear
• embustería
• embustero
• embustir

 

Etymology 2

Verb

embuste

1. inflection of embustir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “embuste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014