carnífice

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin carnificem (“butcher”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈni.fi.si/ [kaɦˈni.fi.si]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈni.fi.si/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈni.fi.si/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaɻˈni.fi.se/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈni.fi.sɨ/

Hyphenation: car‧ní‧fi‧ce

Noun

carnífice m or f by sense (plural carnífices)

(archaic) executioner (person who carries out a capital punishment)
Synonyms: carrasco, algoz, verdugo
(literary) a cruel and violent person
Synonym: carrasco

Related terms

carnificina

Spanish

Noun

carnífice m (plural carnífices)

(archaic) executioner

Further reading

“carnífice”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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