# carrasco
## Galician
### Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈrasko/ [kɑˈras̺.kʊ]
* Rhymes: -asko
* Hyphenation: ca‧rras‧co

### Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)
* kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)

#### Derived terms

* carrasca
* Carrasca
* carrascal
* Carrasco
* carrasquedo
* Carrasquedo
* carrasqueira
* Carrasqueira
* Carrasqueiras

### See also

* Carballo carrasco on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{gl}$

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carras”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carrasco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carrasco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carrasco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “carrasca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈʁas.ku/ [kaˈhas.ku]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈʁas.ku/ [kaˈhas.ku]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kaˈʁaʃ.ku/ [kaˈχaʃ.ku]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈʁas.ko/ [kaˈhas.ko]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈʁaʃ.ku/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃku, (most of Brazil) -asku, (Southern Brazil) -asko
* Hyphenation: carrasco

### Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root, or perhaps from Latin cerrus (“Turkey oak”) + -asco.

#### Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)
* holm oak (Quercus ilex, a tree of the Mediterranean)
    Synonyms: carrasca, azinheira
* kermes oak (Quercus coccifera, a tree of the western Mediterranean)
    Synonym: pinheiro-carrasco

##### Related terms

* carrascal
* carrascoso

### Etymology 2

Named after Portuguese executioner Belchior Nunes Carrasco.

#### Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)
* executioner (person who carries out a capital punishment)
    Synonyms: executor, algoz, verdugo, castigador
** 1723, Bento Pereira, “Cuſculium”, in Prosodia in vocabularium bilingue, Latinum, et Lusitanum (in Latin), Évora: Typographia Academiae, page 223, column 1:O carraſco mata.The executioner kills.
** 2010, Gabriel Lacerda, Agir bem é bom, Senac, page 83:Se vivesse em um país onde a pena de morte é legal, você aceitaria a profissão de carrasco?If you lived in a country where the death penalty is legal, would you accept to work as an executioner?
* (figurative) a very cruel person
** 2005, Paulo Markun, O melhor do Roda Viva, Conex, page 73:Quem lê a biografia dela vai sentir a pressão que houve por ela ter avaliado o Eichmann, um carrasco dos judeus, como um burocrata que cumpriu aquela missão.Those who read her biography will feel the pressure that happened due to her having evaluated Eichmann, a cruel person for the Jews, as a bureaucrat who carried that mission out.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈrasko/ [kaˈras.ko]
* Rhymes: -asko
* Syllabification: ca‧rras‧co

### Noun

carrasco m (plural carrascos)
* Aleppo pine
    Synonym: pino carrasco
* (Bolivia, Ecuador) A broad region of woody scrubland
* Alternative form of carrasca

#### Derived terms

* carrasco espinoso
* pino carrasco

### Further reading

* “carrasco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10