luchador
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish luchador.
Noun
[edit]luchador (plural luchadors or luchadores)
- (professional wrestling) A Mexican professional wrestler, frequently (but not always) masked.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin luctatōrem (compare Portuguese lutador), corresponding to luchar + -dor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]luchador (feminine luchadora, masculine plural luchadores, feminine plural luchadoras)
Noun
[edit]luchador m (plural luchadores, feminine luchadora, feminine plural luchadoras)
- fighter, scrapper
- (sports) wrestler
- struggler
- (figurative) someone with a fighting spirit
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “luchador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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