Noun: buraco
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | buraco |
| Plural m | buracos |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like buraco
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Uncertain.
2. Possibly from Old Galician-Portuguese furaco, through Vulgar Latin *foraculum from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”). Compare Galician buraco, furaco, furado, Asturian furacu, buracu, Ladino burako, Leonese buraco, Spanish buraco; compare also, just for the card games, Italian burraco and Sicilian vurracu. Cf. also Catalan forat, Spanish horado.
3. Or, possibly borrowed from Old High German boron (“to bore, drill”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
furaco', Latin Nouns '
forāmen', Galician Nouns '
buraco', Asturian Nouns '
furacu', Italian Nouns '
burraco', Catalan Nouns '
forat', Spanish Nouns '
horado'.
Verbs referencing "buraco"
Catalan Nouns
forat, Galician Nouns
buraco, Italian Nouns
burraco, Spanish Nouns
juraco, Spanish Nouns
huraco.
Translations