narcotraficante
Portuguese
Etymology
narco- + traficante
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /naʁ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [nah.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /naɾ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /naʁ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [naχ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /naɻ.ko.tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /nɐɾ.ku.tɾɐ.fiˈkɐ̃.tɨ/
Noun
narcotraficante m or f by sense (plural narcotraficantes)
Related terms
Further reading
- “narcotraficante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
From narco- + traficante.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /naɾkotɾafiˈkante/ [naɾ.ko.t̪ɾa.fiˈkãn̪.t̪e]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: nar‧co‧tra‧fi‧can‧te
Noun
narcotraficante m or f by sense (plural narcotraficantes)
- drug trafficker
- 2025 July 22, “El “infierno en la tierra”: la cárcel MDC en la que están Fito, Caro Quintero, el Mayo Zambada y otros presos de alto perfil”, in CNN en Español[1]:
- También están otros los narcotraficantes mexicanos Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias “El Viceroy”, y Rafael Caro Quintero.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- drug baron, druglord, drug kingpin
- Synonym: capo
See also
Further reading
- “narcotraficante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024