verdugo
See also: Verdugo
Galician
Noun
verdugo m (plural verdugos)
- executioner, hangman
- Synonym: buxeu
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /veʁˈdu.ɡu/ [veɦˈdu.ɡu]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /veɾˈdu.ɡu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /veʁˈdu.ɡu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /veɻˈdu.ɡo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vɨɾˈdu.ɡu/ [vɨɾˈðu.ɣu]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /bɨɾˈdu.ɡu/ [bɨɾˈðu.ɣu]
Noun
verdugo m (plural verdugos)
Further reading
- “verdugo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “verdugo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *virdūcus, from *virde, from Latin viridis (“green”), with the meaning of "a green stick used to beat someone".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beɾˈduɡo/ [beɾˈð̞u.ɣ̞o]
Audio (Rosario, Argentina): (file) - Rhymes: -uɡo
- Syllabification: ver‧du‧go
Noun
verdugo m (plural verdugos, feminine verduga, feminine plural verdugas)
- executioner, hangman (official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal)
- Synonym: oficial
- 2021 August 26, Eva Saiz, quoting Juan Manuel Guijo, “Los desenterradores de la memoria en la fosa de Pico Reja”, in El País[1]:
- “La verdad de los verdugos no se reproduce en los archivos. Es la tierra la que habla”, afirma Guijo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- tyrant
- (bullfighting) puntilla (small dagger for administering the coup de grâce to the bull)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “verdugo”, 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