alcatruz
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Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic قَادُوس (qādūs), borrowed from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos).
Noun
[edit]alcatruz m (plural alcatruzes)
- bucket attached to a noria
- concrete pipe used for water canalisation
- 1456 March 1, Gill Vaaz, Quitação de Gonçalo Pacheco thesoureiro de Ceuta; republished as chapter CCCXXI, in Pedro de Azevedo, editor, Documentos das chancelarias reais anteriores a 1531 relativos a Marrocos, volume II, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1934, page 360:
- Item deu quatrocentos e sessenta e quatro reaes por conpra de dezoito alcatruzes e por hũ moioo e meo de cal e por area ea quem amassou a dita call e por hua barcadega de pedra e por outras cousas necessarias todo pera corregimento de hum cano que esta na casa de Cepta.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- José Pedro Machado (1995) “alcatruz”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 182, column 1
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese alcatruz (“noria bucket”), from Arabic الْقَادُوس (al-qādūs, “skep”), from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “bucket”). Compare with Spanish arcaduz, Catalan caduf, and Sicilian catusu.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]alcatruz m (plural alcatruzes)
- bucket attached to a noria
- (Algarve) clay pot used to capture octopuses
- (Portugal) concrete pipe used for water canalisation
- (colloquial, Portugal, chiefly plural) large and heavy boots
- Synonym: botifarra
- (nautical, Brazil) scoop of a dredger
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:alcatruz.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Spanish: alcatruz
References
[edit]- José Pedro Machado (1995) “alcatruz”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 182, column 1
- “alcatruz”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “alcatruz”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
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