báculo

See also: baculo

Portuguese

báculo

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin baculum, from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku.lu/

• Rhymes: -akulu
• Hyphenation: bá‧cu‧lo

Noun

báculo m (plural báculos)

1. crosier of a bishop

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin baculum, from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbakulo/ [ˈba.ku.lo]
• Rhymes: -akulo
• Syllabification: bá‧cu‧lo

Noun

báculo m (plural báculos)

1. staff (long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking)

   Synonym: bastón

Further reading

• “báculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10