borachio C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary US /bəˈrɑtʃioʊ/ UK /bəˈrɑːtʃiəʊ/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a leather wine bottle or wineskin; archaically a drunkard The traveler slung a borachio of rough wine over his shoulder. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a leather wine bottle or... wineskindrunkardsottippler Etymology AI details From Spanish borracha ('leather wine bottle') and borracho ('drunkard'), of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps from Catalan or a pre-Roman Iberian word. borracha Spanish View etymology graph -> Topics General Vocabulary External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # borachio **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /bəˈrɑtʃioʊ/ **IPA (UK):** /bəˈrɑːtʃiəʊ/ ## Meanings 1. a leather wine bottle or wineskin; archaically a drunkard ## Examples - The traveler slung a borachio of rough wine over his shoulder. ## Synonyms - wineskin - drunkard - sot - tippler ## Roots and Affixes - Root: borracha ## Etymology From Spanish borracha ('leather wine bottle') and borracho ('drunkard'), of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps from Catalan or a pre-Roman Iberian word. ## AI Etymology Borachio comes from Spanish borracha ('leather wine bottle') and borracho ('drunkard'), of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps from Catalan or a pre-Roman Iberian word. The historical trail runs through borracha in Spanish. The history must be left partly open, preserving the uncertainty rather than forcing a single unsupported ancestry. Used as a noun, borachio now means "a leather wine bottle or wineskin; archaically a drunkard", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. That uncertainty is part of the entry: the safest account is the attested form and the limited comparisons preserved with it. ## Topics - General Vocabulary markdown