caricatura

Noun

caricatura (plural caricaturas)

1. Archaic form of caricature.

Etymology

From Italian caricatura.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kə.ɾi.kəˈtu.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾi.kaˈtu.ɾa/

Noun

caricatura f (plural caricatures)

1. caricature

Further reading

• “caricatura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Verb

caricatura

1. third-person singular past historic of caricaturer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ri.kaˈtu.ra/, [kär̺ikäˈt̪uːr̺ä]
• Rhymes: -ura
• Stress: caricatùra
• Hyphenation: ca‧ri‧ca‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

caricare (“to exaggerate (the features of a person)”) +‎ -tura (“-ure”, verbal action suffix)

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌka.ɾi.ka.ˈtu.ɾa/

Noun

caricatura f (plural caricaturas)

1. caricature (pictorial representation of someone for comic effect)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾikaˈtuɾa/, [kaɾikaˈt̪uɾa]

Noun

caricatura f (plural caricaturas)

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

Further reading

• “caricatura” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.