picador

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English

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A picador in action.

Etymology

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From Spanish picador (stinger).

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Noun

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picador (plural picadors or picadores)

  1. (bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.
    I saw the picador lance the bull.
    • 1889, Nellie Bly, Six Months In Mexico, page 42:
      The bull roars with pain, and the banderillas toss about in the lacerated flesh, from which the blood pours in crimson streams. "Poor beast! what a shame," we think, and even then the order is given for the picador to attack the bull.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish picador.

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picador m (plural picadors)

  1. (bullfighting) picador

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French picador.

Noun

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picador m (plural picadori)

  1. picador

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Spanish

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Etymology

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From picar +‎ -ador.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pikaˈdoɾ/ [pi.kaˈð̞oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: pi‧ca‧dor

Noun

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picador m (plural picadores, feminine picadora, feminine plural picadoras)

  1. someone who stabs or wounds
  2. someone who cuts sugar-cane
  3. (bullfighting) picador
    • 1904, Pio Baroja, La lucha por la vida:
      el picador le aplicó la punta de su lanza, el toro embistió y levantó al caballo en el aire.
      the picador stabbed him with the point of his lance, the bull charged and threw the horse into the air.
    • 2017, Alfonso Noel Lovo, La Increíble Historia Del Supertorero, Su Caballo Nostradamus Y El Toro Minotauro:
      Detrás del Maya, venían sus ayudantes con trajes de luces menos llamativos, sus capas rosadas con revés amarillo de satín, los picadores con sus caballos con armaduras acolchonadas
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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