borceguí
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First attested in Old French broissequin (1316), probably with known suffix -in from Arabic بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “saddle-pad”), a material reused for shoes.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /boɾθeˈɡi/ [boɾ.θeˈɣ̞i]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /boɾseˈɡi/ [boɾ.seˈɣ̞i]
- Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: bor‧ce‧guí
Noun[edit]
borceguí m (plural borceguís or borceguíes)
- (Latin America) combat boot
- historical Spanish boot of the Middle Ages
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “borceguí”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Pezzi Martínez, Elena (1979) “Origen oriental del vocablo borceguí”, in Miscelánea de estudios árabes y hebraicos[1] (in Spanish), volumes 27–28, pages 79–109