carabinero
English
Etymology
From Spanish carabinero.
Noun
carabinero (plural carabineros)
- A frontier guard (or similar) in Spain or South America.
- A member of the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmerie, the "Carabineros de Chile".
- (historical) A member of an armed force, in Spain between 1829 and 1940, whose mission was to patrol the coasts and borders of the country.
Spanish
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Carabineros (Aristaeopsis edwardsiana)
Etymology
From carabina + -ero.
Noun
carabinero m (plural carabineros, feminine carabinera, feminine plural carabineras)
- (historically) carbineer (soldier armed with a carbine)
- (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia) member of the national police
- (Spain, historical) a member of an armed force, in Spain between 1829 and 1940, whose mission was to patrol the coasts and borders of the country
- certain red shrimp
- Aristaeopsis edwardsiana
- Aristeus antennatus
- Aristaeomorpha foliacea (giant red shrimp)
Further reading
- “carabinero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014