Uncertain. FromOld Galician-Portugueseburaco (13th century), perhaps from a local derivative ofProto-Indo-European*bʰerH-(“to pierce”) + the suffix-aco, from a pre-Lattin suffix-akko-.[1]
ComparePortugueseburaco,Asturianburacu,furacu.
buraco m (pluralburacos)
- hole
- Synonyms:buxeiro,furado
- pit
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González;Granja, María Álvarez de la;Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “buraco”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “buraco”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “buraco”, inDicionario 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), “buraco”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “buraco”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
- Rhymes:-aku
- Hyphenation:bu‧ra‧co
Uncertain.
Possibly fromOld Galician-Portuguesefuraco, throughVulgar Latin*foraculum fromLatinforāmen(“aperture, opening”). CompareGalicianburaco,furaco,furado,Asturianfuracu,buracu,Ladinoburako,Leoneseburaco, andSpanishburaco; cf. alsoCatalanforat,Spanishhorado.
Or, possibly borrowed fromOld High Germanboron(“to bore, drill”).[1]
buraco m (pluralburacos)
- pit;hole(hollow spot in a surface)
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:buraco
- burrow(a tunnel or hole dug by a creature)
- Synonyms:toca,túnel
- (figurative, depreciative) a veryfilthy,crude orprecarious house
- Synonyms:esconderijo,toca,ninho de ratos
- (billiards, pool, snooker)pocket(cavity with a sack at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table)
- Synonym:caçapa
- hole(an opening in a solid)
- Synonyms:abertura,fenda,orifício
- (figurative)gap(a vacant time)
- Synonyms:janela,lacuna
- (figurative) anemotionalgap caused by someone’s death orabsence
- Synonym:vazio
- (slang) a difficultsituationfinancially
- (card games)canasta, especially its Brazilian variant
- Synonyms:biriba,canastra
buraco
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofburacar
- ^“buraco” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
