carabinero

From Spanish carabinero.

carabinero (plural carabineros)

1. A frontier guard (or similar) in Spain or South America.
   1. A member of the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmerie, the "Carabineros de Chile".
   2. (historical) A member of an armed force, in Spain between 1829 and 1940, whose mission was to patrol the coasts and borders of the country.

From carabina +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /kaɾabiˈneɾo/ [ka.ɾa.β̞iˈne.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: ca‧ra‧bi‧ne‧ro

carabinero m (plural carabineros, feminine carabinera, feminine plural carabineras)

1. (historically) carbineer (soldier armed with a carbine)
2. (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia) member of the national police
3. (Spain, historical) a member of an armed force, in Spain between 1829 and 1940, whose mission was to patrol the coasts and borders of the country
4. certain red shrimp
   1. Aristaeopsis edwardsiana
   2. Aristeus antennatus
   3. Aristaeomorpha foliacea (giant red shrimp)

• “carabinero”, 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