trabuco

See also: trabucó

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan trabuc (“catapult”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβuko̝/

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet
   • 1460, J. A. Souto Cabo (ed.), Crónica de Santa María de Íria. Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 102:

     Et os da eglleia fazian moyto mal cõ huũ trabuquo cõ que tirauã de çima da eglleia: lançaua a pedra fasta a Rrua do Camjño.

     And the ones in the church were causing a lot of damage with a trabuchet with which they shoot from the church's top: it was throwing the stones till the Rúa do Camiño street

2. a kind of blunderbuss

Related terms

• trabuquete

Etymology 2

From Medieval Galician trabuto (“tax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβuko̝/

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. (familiar) tax

   Synonym: tributo

Related terms

• tributo

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “trabuquo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “trabuco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Provençal trabuc, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin trabs (“tree trunk, timber, beam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾa.ˈbu.ku/
• IPA^(key): /tɾa.ˈbu.ko/

Noun

trabuco m (plural s)

1. trebuchet
2. a kind of blunderbuss
3. (derogatory) an ugly woman

Synonyms

• (ugly woman): tribufu, baranga

Related terms

• catapulta, manganela, onagro
• bacamarte

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Spanish

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. blunderbuss