carapacho
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to Portuguese carapaça and French carapace, ultimately of unknown, likely substrate origin.[1] Another theory traces it to Latin capa (“cape, cloak”).[2]
Compare also calabaza (“pumpkin, gourd”), Catalan carabassa, carbassa (“pumpkin”), and Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “a kind of beetle or crustacean; vessel”); also galápago (“kind of turtle”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carapacho m (plural carapachos)
References
[edit]- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “carapace”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]- “carapacho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28