trapiche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trapiche.

Noun

trapiche (plural trapiches)

1. A mill made of wooden rollers used to extract juice from fruit, originally olives, or from sugar cane.
2. A star-shaped pattern of inclusions sometimes found in gemstones.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trapiche.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈpi.ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈpi.ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾaˈpi.ʃe/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɐˈpi.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɐˈpi.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɐˈpi.t͡ʃɨ/

• Hyphenation: tra‧pi‧che

Noun

trapiche m (plural trapiches)

1. a storehouse near a pier in which goods that will be shipped are kept

   Synonym: alfândega

2. (Brazil) pier

   Synonyms: cais, píer, embarcadouro

Further reading

• “trapiche”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “trapiche”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Mozarabic *trapíč, from Latin trapētum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈpit͡ʃe/ [t̪ɾaˈpi.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -itʃe
• Syllabification: tra‧pi‧che

Noun

trapiche m (plural trapiches)

1. press, crusher (machine)
   • 2017 July 10, “Lumpen”, in El Nacional‎^[1]:

     Son, invariablemente asesinados, neutralizados, molidos en trapiches de aparataje bochornosos por líderes celosos y por sucedáneos indignos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• trapichear

 

Descendants

• → English: trapiche
• → Portuguese: trapiche

Further reading

• “trapiche”, 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
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “trapiche”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 524