picador
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish picador (“stinger”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpɪkədɔː(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]picador (plural picadors or picadores)
- (bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.
- I saw the picador lance the bull.
- 1889, Nellie Bly, Six Months In Mexico, page 42:
- The bull roars with pain, and the banderillas toss about in the lacerated flesh, from which the blood pours in crimson streams. "Poor beast! what a shame," we think, and even then the order is given for the picador to attack the bull.
Translations
[edit]a lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish picador.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]picador m (plural picadors)
Further reading
[edit]- “picador”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]picador m (plural picadori)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | picador | picadorul | picadori | picadorii | |
genitive-dative | picador | picadorului | picadori | picadorilor | |
vocative | picadorule | picadorilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]picador m (plural picadores, feminine picadora, feminine plural picadoras)
- someone who stabs or wounds
- someone who cuts sugar-cane
- (bullfighting) picador
- 1904, Pio Baroja, La lucha por la vida:
- el picador le aplicó la punta de su lanza, el toro embistió y levantó al caballo en el aire.
- the picador stabbed him with the point of his lance, the bull charged and threw the horse into the air.
- 2017, Alfonso Noel Lovo, La Increíble Historia Del Supertorero, Su Caballo Nostradamus Y El Toro Minotauro:
- Detrás del Maya, venían sus ayudantes con trajes de luces menos llamativos, sus capas rosadas con revés amarillo de satín, los picadores con sus caballos con armaduras acolchonadas
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “picador”, 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
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