buraco
Galician edit
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Etymology edit
Uncertain. From Old Galician-Portuguese buraco (13th century), perhaps from a local derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”) + the suffix -aco, from a pre-Lattin suffix -akko-.[1]
Compare Portuguese buraco, Asturian buracu, furacu. The form furado derives from Latin forātus; compare Catalan forat, Spanish horado, Asturian furáu.
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buraco m (plural buracos)
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References edit
- “buraco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “buraco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “buraco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “buraco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “buraco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “horadar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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Etymology 1 edit
Uncertain.
Possibly from Old Galician-Portuguese furaco, through Vulgar Latin *foraculum from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”). Compare Galician buraco, furaco, furado, Asturian furacu, buracu, Ladino burako, Leonese buraco, and Spanish buraco; cf. also Catalan forat, Spanish horado.
Or, possibly borrowed from Old High German boron (“to bore, drill”).[1]
Noun edit
buraco m (plural buracos)
- pit; hole (hollow spot in a surface)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buraco
- burrow (a tunnel or hole dug by a creature)
- (figurative, depreciative) a very filthy, crude or precarious house
- Synonyms: esconderijo, toca, ninho de ratos
- (billiards, pool, snooker) pocket (cavity with a sack at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table)
- Synonym: caçapa
- hole (an opening in a solid)
- (figurative) gap (a vacant time)
- (figurative) an emotional gap caused by someone’s death or absence
- Synonym: vazio
- (slang) a difficult situation financially
- (card games) canasta, especially its Brazilian variant
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buraco