carbunco
Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]carbunco f (plural carbuncos)
- Alternative form of carbúnculo
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]From an earlier carbunclo, borrowed from Latin carbunculus (“little coal”), metonymically referring to an abscess. Compare English carbuncle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carbunco m (plural carbuncos)
- (pathology) anthrax
- Synonym: ántrax maligno
- (Costa Rica) fire beetle
Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: karbungko
Further reading
[edit]- “carbunco”, 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
Categories:
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician nouns with irregular gender
- Galician feminine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
- Spanish semi-learned borrowings from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/unko
- Rhymes:Spanish/unko/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Pathology
- Costa Rican Spanish
- es:Tenebrionoid beetles
- es:Bacterial diseases