verdugo
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See also: Verdugo
Galician[edit]
Noun[edit]
verdugo m (plural verdugos)
- executioner, hangman
- Synonym: buxeu
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
verdugo m (plural verdugos)
Further reading[edit]
- “verdugo” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “verdugo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *virdūcus, from *virde, from Latin viridis (“green”), with the meaning of "a green stick used to beat someone".
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
verdugo m (plural verdugos, feminine verduga, feminine plural verdugas)
- executioner, hangman (official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal)
- Synonym: oficial
- 2021 August 26, Eva Saiz, quoting Juan Manuel Guijo, “Los desenterradores de la memoria en la fosa de Pico Reja”, in El País[1]:
- “La verdad de los verdugos no se reproduce en los archivos. Es la tierra la que habla”, afirma Guijo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- tyrant
- (bullfighting) puntilla (small dagger for administering the coup de grâce to the bull)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “verdugo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams[edit]
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