trabuco

From Old Occitan trabuc (“catapult”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβuko̝/

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet
   • 1460, J. A. Souto Cabo (ed.), 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, 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

• trabuquete

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

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβuko̝/

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. (informal) tribute, tax
   • 1697, Juan Correa Mendoza, Romanze Gallego:

     Libertounos de trabucos, / Dalcauelas, è de peytos,

     He freed us of tributes, charges and taxes

   Synonym: tributo

• tributo

• “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.

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

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

• “trabuco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “trabuco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “trabuco” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

From trabucar.

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

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet
2. blunderbuss

trabuco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

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