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capacho
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Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
capacho m (plural capachos)
- doormat (coarse mat that appears at the entrance to a house)
- (figuratively) doormat (someone that is over-submissive to others’ wishes)
Further reading
- “capacho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “capacho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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Spanish
Etymology
Variant of capazo, from Latin capācem (“wide, roomy, capacious”).
Pronunciation
Noun
capacho m (plural capachos)
- wicker basket
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena [Myths and Superstitions Collected from Chilean Oral Tradition] (pdf), page 184:
- 191. El diez de agosto, día de San Lorenzo, no debe trabajar ningúü minero, porque el que lo hace está expuesto a graves accidentes: si es barretero, se quema con la pólvora del tiro; si apir (cargador) rueda con el capacho; etc. (Copiapó).
- 191. On the tenth of August, Saint Lawrence's day, no miner should work, because he who does so exposes himself to serious accidents: a driller will burn himself with gunshot powder; a loader will roll with the wicker basket; etc. (Copiapó)
- wicker baby carriage
Adjective
capacho (feminine capacha, masculine plural capachos, feminine plural capachas)
- (bullfighting) having horns pointing flat out to the sides
Further reading
- “capacho”, 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
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