Translation
to slaughter (an animal for meat); to butcher
Word origin
From French boucher and English butcher, both from Old French bochier, a dealer in goat meat, from Medieval Latin buccus, a he-goat. The trade was named after the animal it started with, and the name outlived the speciality.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- bochier
- English cognates
- butcher
Examples
, .
He slaughtered the pig, and the whole village got meat.
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The law does not allow animals to be slaughtered in the village.
, .
She could not slaughter the sheep herself, so she sold it.
is transitive and specific: it is killing an animal for meat, in the
matter-of-fact register a farm or a butcher's shop uses. It is not the general
word for killing, which is , and it is not a word for violence
against people unless you are deliberately reaching for the shock of the
metaphor.
The derivations are exactly the ones you would predict. o is the
butcher, the person whose trade this is. o is the place, an abattoir.
o is the meat as a product. And amasbuĉi, built on
amaso, is to massacre, which is the one place the
root is applied to people and where the ugliness is the point.
Its neighbours in the meat vocabulary are already
on the site: bovo the ox,
porko the pig, ŝafo the
sheep and tranĉi the cutting. Esperanto does not
copy the English trick where the animal is Anglo-Saxon and the meat on the
plate is Norman French, so there is no beef/cow split to learn:
bova is beef, and the pig stays a pig all the way to the table.
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