alcornoque
English
Noun
alcornoque
- The plant Bowdichia virgilioides.
Alternative forms
Portuguese
Etymology
From Mozarabic *alqurnúq, from Latin quernus (“relating to oak”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.koʁˈnɔ.ki/ [aʊ̯.koɦˈnɔ.ki]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /aw.koɾˈnɔ.ki/ [aʊ̯.koɾˈnɔ.ki]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /aw.koʁˈnɔ.ki/ [aʊ̯.koʁˈnɔ.ki]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.koɻˈnɔ.ke/ [aʊ̯.koɻˈnɔ.ke]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kuɾˈnɔ.kɨ/ [aɫ.kuɾˈnɔ.kɨ]
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔki, (Portugal) -ɔkɨ
- Hyphenation: al‧cor‧no‧que
Noun
alcornoque m (plural alcornoques)
- (botany) tree of the fagaceae family (Quercus suber) from which cork is extracted
- (Alentejo) old cork oak trunk
Further reading
- “alcornoque”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
From Mozarabic *alqurnúq, from the Arabic article al- + quernus, variation of Latin quercus + Hispanic suffix -occus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alkoɾˈnoke/ [al.koɾˈno.ke]
- Rhymes: -oke
- Syllabification: al‧cor‧no‧que
Noun
alcornoque m (plural alcornoques)
- cork oak
- cork (bark of the cork oak)
- Synonym: corcho
- (slang) nincompoop, knucklehead
Derived terms
Further reading
- “alcornoque”, 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