tramoya

Spanish

Etymology

From trama (“weave, plot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈmoʝa/ [t̪ɾaˈmo.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /tɾaˈmoʝa/ [t̪ɾaˈmo.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /tɾaˈmoʃa/ [t̪ɾaˈmo.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /tɾaˈmoʒa/ [t̪ɾaˈmo.ʒa]

• Rhymes: -oʝa
• Syllabification: tra‧mo‧ya

Noun

tramoya f (plural tramoyas)

1. (theater) the stage machinery, or a piece thereof
2. (figurative) racket, scam, scheme

Descendants

• → Catalan: tramoia
• → Portuguese: tramoia

Further reading

• “tramoya”, 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