achaque

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃake/ [aˈt͡ʃa.ke]
• Rhymes: -ake
• Syllabification: a‧cha‧que

achaque m (plural achaques)

1. excuse, pretext

   Synonyms: encomodu, escusa, sida, apa

2. inconvenience, setback

   Synonyms: desterciu, encomeniente, inquiz

Attested since circa 1300. Probably from Arabic شَكَا (šakā, “complain”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃake/ [aˈt͡ʃɑ.kɪ]
• Rhymes: -ake
• Hyphenation: a‧cha‧que

achaque m (plural achaques)

1. excuse, pretext

   Synonyms: escusa, pretexto

   • 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito‎^[1]:

     Meu sobrino pouco biche no camiño que Aca muyto mais pasou esa jente Aca chegou e nonos deixaron biño Pan nen pasta que ata estar de choz non lle basta darlles da bianda boa mesturada con boroa so pantrigo non segasta. Ja A bezina non tengalo nen galiña; polo camiño e congostra fan mais mal que no a lagostra son como abes de Rapiña, Lagumeiros, lapuzes e lacoeiros que con Achaque da guerra quedou ynsinada A terra a consentir lacoeiros

     My nephew, little did you see in the road, because here much more happened: that people here arrived and they didn't left us wine, bread or paste, that even [?] was not enough for them; giving them good viand admixed with black bread, so the wheat bread is not spent. Now the neighbour has no hen or rooster; in the road and the lane they do more harm than locusts; they are like birds of prey, loafers[?], guzzlers and gluttons that with the pretext of the war the country was left taught to consent gluttons

2. affliction, infirmity

   Synonym: alifafe

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “achaque”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “achaque”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “achaque”, 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), “achaque”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “achaque”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Uncertain origin, possibly from Arabic or a Germanic language. Compare Spanish achaque.

• Hyphenation: a‧cha‧que

achaque m (plural achaques)

1. frequent but minor malaise
2. a moral or behavioural flaw; a vice
3. an excuse for doing something; a pretext

• achaquilho (diminutive)
• achaquento

• Macanese: achaque

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃake/ [aˈt͡ʃa.ke]

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• Rhymes: -ake
• Syllabification: a‧cha‧que

Probably deverbal from achacar, from Arabic. Alternatively the Spanish noun might be from Arabic الشَكْوَى (aš-šakwā, “complaint”) with the verb then denominal.

achaque m (plural achaques)

1. minor sickness, malady especially a cold
2. default, failing
3. subject, issue, topic
4. (informal) period, menstruation

   Synonyms: menstruación, regla, periodo

• → Italian: acciacco
• → Ladino: achakes de

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

achaque

1. inflection of achacar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “achaque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024