judas
English edit
Noun edit
judas (plural judases)
- Alternative letter-case form of Judas (“traitor”)
- Alternative letter-case form of Judas (“Judas-hole”)
- 1913, Baroness Orczy, chapter 27, in The Laughing Cavalier:
- Soon he heard a soft grating behind the judas, and he felt—more than he saw—that a pair of eyes were peering at him from within.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
judas m (plural judas)
- Judas (traitor)
- spyhole, peephole, judas
- 1882, Guy de Maupassant, La Peur:
- Au-dehors, la tempête acharnée battait la petite maison, et, par un étroit carreau, une sorte de judas placé près de la porte, je voyais soudain tout un fouillis d’arbres bousculés par le vent à la lueur de grands éclairs.
- Outside, the fierce storm was battering the little house, and, through a narrow window-pane, a sort of spyhole near the door, I suddenly saw a big tangle of trees knocked over by the wind, illuminated by great flashes of lightning.
Further reading edit
- “judas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Judas.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
judas m (invariable)
- Judas (traitor)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:traidor
- effigy of Judas that is burned during the Holy Saturday
- (Brazil, colloquial) pauper
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “judas” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “judas” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “judas” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “judas” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “judas” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “judas” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “judas” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Judas.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
judas m (plural judas)
Further reading edit
- “judas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014