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basura

/baˈsuɾa/

noun, feminine/baˈsuɾa/plural: basuras

trash, waste, garbage, rubbish, nonsense; something trashy or undesirable

Synonyms: desecho, porquería, mierda

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.

basura — Spanish Dictionary | Passage