carrasco

Galician
Carrasco

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaˈrasko̝/

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

  1. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)

Derived terms

See also

References
  • “carras” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “carrasco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “carrasco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “carrasco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “carrasca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese
FWOTD – 9 May 2015

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʁas.ku/ [kaˈhas.ku]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /kaˈʁaʃ.ku/ [kaˈχaʃ.ku]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʁas.ko/ [kaˈhas.ko]

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root, or perhaps from Latin cerrus (“Turkey oak”) + -asco.

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

  1. holm oak (Quercus ilex, a tree of the Mediterranean)
    Synonyms: carrasca, azinheira
  2. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)
    Synonym: pinheiro-carrasco

Etymology 2

Named after Portuguese executioner Belchior Nunes Carrasco.

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

  1. executioner (person who carries out a capital punishment)
    • 2010, Gabriel Lacerda, Agir bem é bom, Senac, page 83:
      Se vivesse em um país onde a pena de morte é legal, você aceitaria a profissão de carrasco?
      If you lived in a country where the death penalty is legal, would you accept to work as an executioner?
    Synonyms: executor, algoz, verdugo
  2. (figurative) a cruel person
    • 2005, Paulo Markun, O melhor do Roda Vida, Conex, page 73:
      Quem lê a biografia dela vai sentir a pressão que houve por ela ter avaliado o Eichmann, um carrasco dos judeus, como um burocrata que cumpriu aquela missão.
      Those who read her biography will feel the pressure that happened due to her having evaluated Eichmann, a cruel person for the Jews, as a bureaucrat who carried that mission out.

Spanish

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

  1. Aleppo pine
    Synonym: pino carrasco

Further reading
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