cartucho

Portuguese

Etymology

From French cartouche (“cartouche”), from Italian cartoccio (“paper bag, cartouche”), from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “to scratch, to inscribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to scratch”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈtu.ʃu/ [kahˈtu.ʃu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈtu.ʃu/ [kahˈtu.ʃu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈtu.ʃu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈtu.ʃu/ [kaχˈtu.ʃu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaɻˈtu.ʃo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈtu.ʃu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈtu.ʃu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈtu.t͡ʃu/

• Rhymes: -uʃu
• Hyphenation: car‧tu‧cho
• Homophone: cartuxo

Noun

cartucho m (plural cartuchos)

1. (firearms) cartridge
2. cartridge (vessel which contains the ink for a computer printer)
3. (Brazil, slang) connections

Derived terms

• queimar o último cartucho

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈtut͡ʃo/ [kaɾˈt̪u.t͡ʃo]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -utʃo
• Syllabification: car‧tu‧cho

Noun

cartucho m (plural cartuchos)

1. (firearms) cartridge
2. (computing) cartridge
3. ink cartridge
4. (Egyptian hieroglyphs) cartouche

Derived terms

• cartucho de fogueo
• cartuchón
• quemar el último cartucho

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: cartutx

Further reading

• “cartucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014