mochila
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish mochila. Doublet of macheer.
Noun edit
mochila (plural mochilas)
- (US, especially Western US) A large leather flap that covers the saddle tree.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mochila”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Noun edit
mochila f (plural mochiles)
- backpack (worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish mochila,[1] from mochil (“messenger, letter carrier”), from Basque motxil, diminutive form of motil (“boy”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mo‧chi‧la
Noun edit
mochila f (plural mochilas)
References edit
- ^ “mochila” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From mochil (“messenger, letter carrier”, noun), from Basque motxil, diminutive form of motil or mutil (“boy”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mochila f (plural mochilas)
Derived terms edit
- mochilero (“backpacker”)
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: mochila
Further reading edit
- “mochila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014