narcotraficante

Portuguese

Etymology

narco- +‎ traficante

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /naʁ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [nah.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /naʁ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [nah.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /naɾ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /naʁ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [naχ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /naɻ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /naʁ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.te/ [nah.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.te]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɐɾ.ku.tɾɐ.fiˈkɐ̃.tɨ/

Noun

narcotraficante m or f by sense (plural narcotraficantes)

1. drug trafficker

Related terms

• narcotráfico

Further reading

• “narcotraficante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “narcotraficante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From narco- +‎ traficante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɾkotɾafiˈkante/ [naɾ.ko.t̪ɾa.fiˈkãn̪.t̪e]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: nar‧co‧tra‧fi‧can‧te

Noun

narcotraficante m or f by sense (plural narcotraficantes)

1. drug trafficker
   • 2025 July 22, “El “infierno en la tierra”: la cárcel MDC en la que están Fito, Caro Quintero, el Mayo Zambada y otros presos de alto perfil”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     También están otros los narcotraficantes mexicanos Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias “El Viceroy”, y Rafael Caro Quintero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. drug baron, druglord, drug kingpin

   Synonym: capo

See also

• camello

Further reading

• “narcotraficante”, 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