caracca
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]caracca (plural caraccas)
- (nautical, historical) A 16th-century Portuguese armed merchant ship.
- Christopher Columbus used to glance at caraccas waiting ashore when he was a young boy.
Italian
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Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from Arabic حَرَّاقَة (ḥarrāqa, “fireship”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caracca f (plural caracche)
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