verraco – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of verraco

Noun: verraco
Gender: m Hyphenation: ve‧rra‧co
Singular mverraco
Plural mverracos

Sample Sentences

  • El verraco de Guaca es un macho porcino reproductor que aparece en los campos antioqueños con espíritu infernal; […] (The boar of Guaca is a male reproducing pig that appears in the fields of Antioquia as an infernal spirit; […]) [2001, Javier Ocampo López, Mitos y leyendas de Antioquia la Grande, Plaza & Janés, page 113:]
  • […], siendo Balarus uno de los nombres que aparece en la inscripción funeraria de un verraco abulense ([…] , Balarus being one of the names that appears in the funerary inscription of a verraco from Ávila.) [2003, Jesús Rafael Álvarez-Sanchís, Los vettones, Real Academia de la Historia, page 309:]
  • Les cuento que este muchacho es un verraco; porque llegar aquí sin ninguna dirección, ni dinero y, para completar, sin saber leer ni escribir. Este muchacho es un verraco. (I’m telling you that this guy is a fool; because he arrived here without any directions, nor money and, what’s more, not knowing how to read or write. This guy is a fool.) [2013, Silvio Hernando Torres Zúñiga, Los Hijos Del Brujo, LibrosEnRed, page 490:]

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *verrācus, from Latin verrēs (“boar”). Compare Romance cognates with varying suffixes: Portuguese barrão, Asturian verrón, French verrat, etc. See: Latin Nouns 'verrēs', Portuguese Nouns 'barrão', Asturian Nouns 'verrón', French Nouns 'verrat'.

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