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basura.

trash, waste, garbage, rubbish, nonsense

6 characters3 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/baˈsuɾa/[baˈsu.ɾa]
  1. trash, waste, garbage, rubbish, nonsense

    feminine
  2. something trashy or undesirable

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wers-der. Latin verrō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Vulgar Latin *versūra Old Spanish vassura Spanish basura 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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