lacra

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See also: lacrá

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: la‧cra
  • Rhymes: -akɾɐ

Verb

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lacra

  1. inflection of lacrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlakɾa/ [ˈla.kɾa]
  • Rhymes: -akɾa
  • Syllabification: la‧cra

Etymology 1

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Probably from lacre (“sealing wax, resin”), referring to the scars left over after being lashed.[1]

Noun

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lacra f (plural lacras)

  1. (medicine) scar, trace
  2. (figurative) fault, bane; blot
    • 2018 December 8, Ignacio Garriga, quotee, “Ignacio, "harto" de ser el negro catalán de Vox: "Soy español. Eso es racismo"”, in El Español‎[1], retrieved 2021-02-01:
      El Procés es la gran lacra que ha fagocitado todos los problemas de los catalanes.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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lacra

  1. inflection of lacrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Further reading

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