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/
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /kaɻˈni.fi.si/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaʁˈni.fi.se/ [kaɦˈni.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)
- (literary) a cruel and violent person
- Synonym: carrasco
Related terms
Further reading
- “carnífice”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “carnífice”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin carnificem (“butcher”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾˈnifiθe/ [kaɾˈni.fi.θe] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /kaɾˈnifise/ [kaɾˈni.fi.se] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ifiθe (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- Rhymes: -ifise (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: car‧ní‧fi‧ce
Noun
carnífice m (plural carnífices)
- (obsolete) executioner
- Synonym: verdugo
Further reading
- “carnífice”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025