trabuco

trabuco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβuko̝/

From Old Occitan trabuc (“catapult”).

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet
   • 1460, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 102:

     Et os da eglleia fazian moyto mal cõ huũ trabuquo cõ que tirauã de çima da eglleia: lançaua a pedra fasta a Rrua do Camjño.

     And the ones in the church were causing a lot of damage with a trabuchet with which they shoot from the church's top: it was throwing the stones till the Rúa do Camiño street

2. a kind of blunderbuss
   • 1808, anonymous author, Un labrador que foi sarxento:

     Salirán cando volvades,
     Para traervos en trunfo
     Con gaitas e con ferreñas,
     Todal as Mozas de rumbo.
     Veredes como se botan
     Todal as Vellas de bruzos
     Para darvos moitos bicos
     Por pés, por pernas, e muslos.
     Cada Escarapela vosa
     Dirán que val un escudo
     E para gardal a casa
     Tanto coma un bon trabuco.

     They'll come out on your return [from the war with the French]
     to bring you in triumph
     with bagpipes and jingles,
     all the girls along the way.
     You'll see how
     all the old ladies lie face down
     To give many kisses
     on your feet, legs and thighs.
     Each one of your cockades
     worths a shield, they'll say,
     and for guarding the house,
     as much as a good blunderbuss

• trabuquete

Attested since 1697. From Medieval Galician trabuto (“tax”).

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. (informal) tribute, tax

   Synonym: tributo

   • 1697, Juan Correa Mendoza, Romanze Gallego:

     Libertounos de trabucos, / Dalcauelas, è de peytos,

     He freed us of tributes, charges and taxes

• tributo

trabuco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trabuque”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trabuquo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trabuco”, 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), “trabuco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trabuco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Provençal trabuc, from Latin trabs (“tree trunk, timber, beam”).

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet

   Coordinate terms: catapulta, manganela, onagro

2. blunderbuss

   Synonym: bacamarte

3. (derogatory) an ugly woman

   Synonyms: tribufu, baranga

4. (Brazil, humorous) any large and heavy gun, specially a revolver

• “trabuco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “trabuco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “trabuco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈbuko/ [t̪ɾaˈβ̞u.ko]
• Rhymes: -uko
• Syllabification: tra‧bu‧co

Deverbal from trabucar.

trabuco m (plural trabucos)

1. trebuchet
2. blunderbuss
   • 1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra:

     No está en mi carácter lanzarme a la calle trabuco en mano, en día de asonada. No sirvo para eso. Los tiros me ponen nervioso.

     It's not in my character to jump into the street holding a blunderbuss on the day of a riot. I'm useless at that. Shooting makes me jumpy.

trabuco

1. first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

• “trabuco”, 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