carnífice
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin carnificem (“butcher”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: car‧ní‧fi‧ce
Noun edit
carnífice m or f by sense (plural carnífices)
- (archaic) executioner (person who carries out a capital punishment)
- (literary) a cruel and violent person
- Synonym: carrasco
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Noun edit
carnífice m (plural carnífices)
Further reading edit
- “carnífice”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014