maçarico

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ma.saˈɾi.ku/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ma.saˈɾi.ko/

  • Rhymes: -iku
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ça‧ri‧co

Etymology 1

Uncertain.[1] Nascentes proposes that the term comes from a metathesis of *maracico, from Spanish moracico (“sandpiper”), from Celtic môrbik (“sea bird”), being first attested in c. 13th century.[2] Compare Galician mazarico and Asturian mazaricu.

Noun

maçarico m (plural maçaricos)

  1. torch, blowtorch
  2. burner
  3. sandpiper (any bird of the family Scolopacidae)
    Synonym: batuíra
  4. ibis (any bird of the subfamily Threskiornithinae)
  5. (colloquial) any water bird with long, slender legs
  6. (Portugal) leveret with a white spot on the forehead
  7. (Portugal, informal) novice
  8. (Portugal, military, slang) recruit
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

maçarico

  1. first-person singular present indicative of maçaricar

References
  1. “maçarico” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
  2. Antenor Nascentes (1955) “MAÇARICO”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa (in Portuguese), 2 edition, volume I, Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Acadêmica, page 308
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