rapaz

AsturianEdit

Borrowed from Latin rapāx, rapācem (“who robs, plunders”).

rapaz m (plural rapazos)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese rapaz (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Latin rapāx, rapācem (“who robs, plunders”).

rapaz m or f (plural rapaces)

rapaz f (plural rapaces)

Debated. Probably from the same etymon.

rapaz m (plural rapaces, feminine rapaza, feminine plural rapazas)

(archaic, derogatory) lackey
young man, lad, youngster
boy; adolescent
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 440:
  da outra parte en dereyto estaua hũ rrapaz pequeno [...] tijña ẽna mão hũa pelota pequena, et asynaua pera a deytar á agia, et ela fogía et voaua ata que a pelota passaua per ela
  in the other side, on the right, there was a young boy [...] who held in his hand a small ball, and he was making signals to throw it to the eagle, and the eagle fled and flew until the ball passed by

“rapaz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“rapaz” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“rapaz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“rapaz” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“rapaz” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.