caricatura

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) caricature (pictorial representation of someone for comic effect)
2. (Mexico, colloquial, feminine) animated cartoon (especially in plural)

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of caricaturar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of caricaturar:

caricaturar

to caricature

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Concepts

caricature

cartoon

burlesque

grotesquery

grotesqueness

grotesquerie

sketch

Synonyms

dibujos animados

chiste

🤣

bosquejo

viñeta

distorsión

pichingo

extravagancia

Translations

caricature

Karikatur

caricatura

karikatuur

caricatura

caricatura

karikatür

كاريكاتير

xêzik

Zerrbild

macchietta

كَارِيكَاتُور

γελοιογραφία

رَسْم هَزْلِيّ

Hyphenated as

ca‧ri‧ca‧tu‧ra

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kaɾikaˈtuɾa/

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian: caricatura

In summary

Borrowed from Italian caricatura (“caricature”), from caricare (“carry”), from Late Latin carricāre (“carry”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-o-, from Proto-Indo-European *k̑ers- (“to run”).