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trapaça

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Formed from trapa (“snare, trap”),[1] itself borrowed from French trappe (“trap door, hatch”).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -asɐ
  • Hyphenation: tra‧pa‧ça

Noun

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trapaça f (plural trapaças)

  1. a cheating; a swindle

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  2. ^ “trapaça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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