trapiche

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish trapiche. === Noun === trapiche (plural trapiches) A mill made of wooden rollers used to extract juice from fruit, originally olives, or from sugar cane. A star-shaped pattern of inclusions sometimes found in gemstones. == Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish trapiche. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: tra‧pi‧che === Noun === trapiche m (plural trapiches) a storehouse near a pier in which goods that will be shipped are kept Synonym: alfândega (Brazil) pier Synonyms: cais, píer, embarcadouro === Further reading === “trapiche”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “trapiche”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “trapiche”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Mozarabic *trapíč, from Latin trapētum. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɾaˈpit͡ʃe/ [t̪ɾaˈpi.t͡ʃe] Rhymes: -itʃe Syllabification: tra‧pi‧che === Noun === trapiche m (plural trapiches) press, crusher (machine) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: trapiche → Portuguese: trapiche === Further reading === “trapiche”, 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 Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “trapiche”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 524