trabuco

See also: trabucó

Catalan

Verb

trabuco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβuko̝/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan trabuc (“catapult”).

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet
   • 1460, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 102:

     Et os da eglleia fazian moyto mal cõ huũ trabuquo cõ que tirauã de çima da eglleia: lançaua a pedra fasta a Rrua do Camjño.

     And the ones in the church were causing a lot of damage with a trabuchet with which they shoot from the church's top: it was throwing the stones till the Rúa do Camiño street

2. a kind of blunderbuss
   • 1808, anonymous author, Un labrador que foi sarxento:

     Salirán cando volvades,
     Para traervos en trunfo
     Con gaitas e con ferreñas,
     Todal as Mozas de rumbo.
     Veredes como se botan
     Todal as Vellas de bruzos
     Para darvos moitos bicos
     Por pés, por pernas, e muslos.
     Cada Escarapela vosa
     Dirán que val un escudo
     E para gardal a casa
     Tanto coma un bon trabuco.

     They'll come out on your return [from the war with the French]
     to bring you in triumph
     with bagpipes and jingles,
     all the girls along the way.
     You'll see how
     all the old ladies lie face down
     To give many kisses
     on your feet, legs and thighs.
     Each one of your cockades
     worths a shield, they'll say,
     and for guarding the house,
     as much as a good blunderbuss

Related terms

• trabuquete

Etymology 2

Attested since 1697. From Medieval Galician trabuto (“tax”).

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. (informal) tribute, tax

   Synonym: tributo

   • 1697, Juan Correa Mendoza, Romanze Gallego:

     Libertounos de trabucos, / Dalcauelas, è de peytos,

     He freed us of tributes, charges and taxes

Related terms

• tributo

Etymology 3

Verb

trabuco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

References

• “trabuque” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “trabuquo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “trabuco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “trabuco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “trabuco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Provençal trabuc, from Latin trabs (“tree trunk, timber, beam”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈbu.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈbu.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈbu.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɐˈbu.ku/ [tɾɐˈβu.ku]

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet

   Coordinate terms: catapulta, manganela, onagro

2. blunderbuss

   Synonym: bacamarte

3. (derogatory) an ugly woman

   Synonyms: tribufu, baranga

4. (Brazil, humorous) any large and heavy gun, specially a revolver

Further reading

• “trabuco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “trabuco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “trabuco” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈbuko/ [t̪ɾaˈβ̞u.ko]
• Rhymes: -uko
• Syllabification: tra‧bu‧co

Etymology 1

Deverbal from trabucar.

Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet
2. blunderbuss
   • 1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra:

     No está en mi carácter lanzarme a la calle trabuco en mano, en día de asonada. No sirvo para eso. Los tiros me ponen nervioso.

     It's not in my character to jump into the street holding a blunderbuss on the day of a riot. I'm useless at that. Shooting makes me jumpy.

Etymology 2

Verb

trabuco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

Further reading

• “trabuco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014