Feminine
basura
- (feminine) trash, waste, garbage, rubbish, nonsense
- (feminine) something trashy or undesirable
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ba‧su‧ra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/baˈsuɾa/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish vassura, from Vulgar Latin *versūra, ultimately derived from Latin verrō (“sweep”). Unrelated to Latin versūra (“refinancing”), which derives from vertō (“turn”). Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *sъmetь, *sъmetьje (whence Polish śmieć, Serbo-Croatian смеће), akin to *mesti.
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junk pile
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fertilizante natural
triturador de basura
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