capacho

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish capacho, from capazo, from Latin capax.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpa.ʃu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpa.ʃu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpa.ʃo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈpa.ʃu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈpa.ʃu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈpa.t͡ʃu/

Noun

capacho m (plural capachos)

1. doormat (coarse mat that appears at the entrance to a house)
2. (figuratively) doormat (someone that is over-submissive to others’ wishes)

Spanish

Etymology

Variant of capazo, from Latin capācem (“wide, roomy, capacious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpat͡ʃo/ [kaˈpa.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Syllabification: ca‧pa‧cho

Noun

capacho m (plural capachos)

1. wicker basket
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 184:

     El diez de agosto, día de San Lorenzo, no debe trabajar ningún minero, porque el que lo hace está expuesto a graves a graves accidentes: si es barretero, se quema con la pólvora del tiro; si apir (cargador) rueda con el capacho; etc.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. wicker baby carriage

Adjective

capacho (feminine capacha, masculine plural capachos, feminine plural capachas)

1. (bullfighting) having horns pointing flat out to the sides

Further reading

• “capacho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10