escravo

== Galician == === Etymology === First attested in 1460. Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“a Slav”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), which see for more. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /esˈkɾabo/ [es̺ˈkɾa.β̞ʊ] Rhymes: -abo Hyphenation: es‧cra‧vo === Noun === escravo m (plural escravos, feminine escrava, feminine plural escravas) slave === Adjective === escravo (feminine escrava, masculine plural escravos, feminine plural escravas) enslaved (figurative) harsh, difficult, demanding ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “escravo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escravo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escravo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escravo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === iscravo (eye-dialect) === Etymology === Borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“a Slav”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), which see for more. Doublet of eslavo, esloveno, esclavão / eslavão, and tchau / chau. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu Hyphenation: es‧cra‧vo === Noun === escravo m (plural escravos, feminine escrava, feminine plural escravas) slave (person owned as property) Synonym: (historical) cativo slave (person forced to work against their will) Synonym: servo (figuratively) slave (person in a servile condition) (figuratively) slave (one who is completely enthralled or controlled by a given entity or phenomenon) (computing) slave (device subject to control by another device) Antonym: mestre (BDSM) slave (submissive partner in BDSM play) ==== Derived terms ==== === Adjective === escravo (feminine escrava, masculine plural escravos, feminine plural escravas) involving or relating to slavery === Further reading === “escravo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “escravo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026