trapaça

Portuguese

Etymology

Formed from trapa (“snare, trap”),^[1] itself borrowed from French trappe (“trap door, hatch”).^[2]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈpa.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈpa.sa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɐˈpa.sɐ/

Rhymes: -asɐ
Hyphenation: tra‧pa‧ça

Noun

trapaça f (plural trapaças)

a cheating; a swindle

Derived terms

References

^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
^ “trapaça” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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