Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Formed from trapa (snare, trap),[1] itself borrowed from French trappe (trap door, hatch).[2]

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Rhymes: -asɐ
  • Hyphenation: tra‧pa‧ça

Noun edit

trapaça f (plural trapaças)

  1. a cheating; a swindle

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  2. ^ trapaça” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.