traficante
See also: Traficante
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾa.fiˈkɐ̃.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾɐ.fiˈkɐ̃.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: tra‧fi‧can‧te
Noun
traficante m or f by sense (plural traficantes)
- trafficker (someone who transports and/or commercial illegal goods)
- (specifically) dealer (one who peddles illicit drugs)
Spanish
Etymology
Obsolete present participle of traficar (“to smuggle”), from Italian trafficare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾafiˈkante/ [t̪ɾa.fiˈkãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: tra‧fi‧can‧te
Adjective
traficante (plural traficantes)
- dealing
Noun
traficante m or f (plural traficantes)
- dealer (drugs)
- trafficker (illegal)
Related terms
- traficar
- tráfico
- narcotráfico
- narcotraficante
Further reading
- “traficante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014