# trabuco
## Catalan
### Verb

trabuco
* first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾaˈβuko̝/

### Etymology 1

From Old Occitan trabuc (“catapult”).

#### Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)
* trebuchet
** 1460, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 102:Et os da eglleia fazian moyto mal cõ huũ trabuquo cõ que tirauã de çima da eglleia: lançaua a pedra fasta a Rrua do Camjño.And the ones in the church were causing a lot of damage with a trabuchet with which they shoot from the church's top: it was throwing the stones till the Rúa do Camiño street
* a kind of blunderbuss
** 1808, anonymous author, Un labrador que foi sarxento:Salirán cando volvades, Para traervos en trunfo Con gaitas e con ferreñas, Todal as Mozas de rumbo. Veredes como se botan Todal as Vellas de bruzos Para darvos moitos bicos Por pés, por pernas, e muslos. Cada Escarapela vosa Dirán que val un escudo E para gardal a casa Tanto coma un bon trabuco.They'll come out on your return [from the war with the French] to bring you in triumph with bagpipes and jingles, all the girls along the way. You'll see how all the old ladies lie face down To give many kisses on your feet, legs and thighs. Each one of your cockades worths a shield, they'll say, and for guarding the house, as much as a good blunderbuss

##### Related terms

* trabuquete

### Etymology 2

Attested since 1697. From Medieval Galician trabuto (“tax”).

#### Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)
* (informal) tribute, tax
    Synonym: tributo
** 1697, Juan Correa Mendoza, Romanze Gallego:Libertounos de trabucos, / Dalcauelas, è de peytos,He freed us of tributes, charges and taxes

##### Related terms

* tributo

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

trabuco
* first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trabuque”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “trabuquo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trabuco”, 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), “trabuco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trabuco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Provençal trabuc, from Latin trabs (“tree trunk, timber, beam”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾaˈbu.ku/
* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾaˈbu.ku/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tɾaˈbu.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾɐˈbu.ku/ [tɾɐˈβu.ku]

### Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)
* trebuchet
    Coordinate terms: catapulta, manganela, onagro
* blunderbuss
    Synonym: bacamarte
* (derogatory) an ugly woman
    Synonyms: tribufu, baranga
* (Brazil, humorous) any large and heavy gun, specially a revolver

### Further reading

* “trabuco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “trabuco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “trabuco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾaˈbuko/ [t̪ɾaˈβ̞u.ko]
* Rhymes: -uko
* Syllabification: tra‧bu‧co

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from trabucar.

#### Noun

trabuco m (plural trabucos)
* trebuchet
* blunderbuss
** 1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra:No está en mi carácter lanzarme a la calle trabuco en mano, en día de asonada. No sirvo para eso. Los tiros me ponen nervioso.It's not in my character to jump into the street holding a blunderbuss on the day of a riot. I'm useless at that. Shooting makes me jumpy.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

trabuco
* first-person singular present indicative of trabucar

### Further reading

* “trabuco”, 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