carrasco

See also: Carrasco

Galician

Carrasco

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈrasko/ [kɑˈras̺.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -asko
• Hyphenation: ca‧rras‧co

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

1. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)

Derived terms

• carrasca
• Carrasca
• carrascal
• Carrasco
• carrasquedo
• Carrasquedo
• carrasqueira
• Carrasqueira
• Carrasqueiras

See also

• Carballo carrasco on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carras”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carrasco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carrasco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carrasco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

FWOTD – 9 May 2015

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈʁas.ku/ [kaˈhas.ku]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈʁas.ku/ [kaˈhas.ku]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaˈʁaʃ.ku/ [kaˈχaʃ.ku]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈʁas.ko/ [kaˈhas.ko]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈʁaʃ.ku/

• Rhymes: (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃku, (most of Brazil) -asku, (Southern Brazil) -asko
• Hyphenation: carrasco

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root, or perhaps from Latin cerrus (“Turkey oak”) + -asco.

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

1. holm oak (Quercus ilex, a tree of the Mediterranean)

   Synonyms: carrasca, azinheira

2. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)

   Synonym: pinheiro-carrasco

Related terms

• carrascal
• carrascoso

Etymology 2

Named after Portuguese executioner Belchior Nunes Carrasco.

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

1. executioner (person who carries out a capital punishment)

   Synonyms: executor, algoz, verdugo, castigador

   • 1723, Bento Pereira, “Cuſculium”, in Prosodia in vocabularium bilingue, Latinum, et Lusitanum (in Latin), Évora: Typographia Academiae, page 223, column 1:

     O carraſco mata.

     The executioner kills.

   • 2010, Gabriel Lacerda, Agir bem é bom, Senac, page 83:

     Se vivesse em um país onde a pena de morte é legal, você aceitaria a profissão de carrasco?

     If you lived in a country where the death penalty is legal, would you accept to work as an executioner?

2. (figurative) a very cruel person
   • 2005, Paulo Markun, O melhor do Roda Viva, Conex, page 73:

     Quem lê a biografia dela vai sentir a pressão que houve por ela ter avaliado o Eichmann, um carrasco dos judeus, como um burocrata que cumpriu aquela missão.

     Those who read her biography will feel the pressure that happened due to her having evaluated Eichmann, a cruel person for the Jews, as a bureaucrat who carried that mission out.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈrasko/ [kaˈras.ko]
• Rhymes: -asko
• Syllabification: ca‧rras‧co

Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)

1. Aleppo pine

   Synonym: pino carrasco

2. (Bolivia, Ecuador) A broad region of woody scrubland
3. Alternative form of carrasca

Derived terms

• carrasco espinoso
• pino carrasco

Further reading

• “carrasco”, 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