borachio

C2+ Topic:Food & Drink

US /bəˈrɑtʃioʊ/ UK /bəˈrɑːtʃiəʊ/ See IPA manual

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noun
a leather wine bottle or wineskin; archaically a drunkard

The traveler slung a borachio of rough wine over his shoulder.

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1 noun · a leather wine bottle or... wineskindrunkard sottippler

Etymology

From Spanish borracha ('leather wine bottle') and borracho ('drunkard'), of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps from Catalan or a pre-Roman Iberian word.

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# 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
- Food & Drink

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