sarcasmo

From Late Latin sarcasmus, from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós).

• IPA^(key): /sarˈkaz.mo/
• Rhymes: -azmo
• Hyphenation: sar‧cà‧smo

sarcasmo m (plural sarcasmi)

1. sarcasm
2. sarcastic phrase, comment, etc.

• ironia
• irrisione
• mordacità
• scherno
• umorismo

• sarcastico

• massacro, massacrò

Borrowed from Late Latin sarcasmus, from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós, “sneer”), from Ancient Greek σαρκάζειν (sarkázein, “to gnash the teeth”, literally “to tear off the skin”), based on σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”).

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• Hyphenation: sar‧cas‧mo

sarcasmo m (plural sarcasmos)

1. sarcasm

• sarcástico

• “sarcasmo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sarcasmo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Late Latin sarcasmus, from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós, “sneer”), from σαρκάζειν (sarkázein, “to gnash the teeth”, literally “to tear off the skin”), based on σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”).

• IPA^(key): /saɾˈkasmo/ [saɾˈkaz.mo]
• Rhymes: -asmo
• Syllabification: sar‧cas‧mo

sarcasmo m (plural sarcasmos)

1. sarcasm
2. snark

• “sarcasmo”, 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